Soviet Jews in World War II

This volume 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. The essays included here 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 reflecting the nature of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee which for the first time during the Soviet period included both Yiddish-language and Russian-language writers. This volume will be of use to scholars teachers students and researchers working in Russian and Jewish history.