Harriet Murav

Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering - Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies Harriet Murav

Discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, as the period between June 22, 1941, and May 9, 1945 was known in the Soviet Union. These essays examine both newly-discovered and previously-neglected oral testimony, poetry, cinema, diaries, memoirs, newspapers, and archives. This is one of the first books to combine the study of Russian and Yiddish materials.