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Author Shneer, David, 1972-

Title Through Soviet Jewish eyes : photography, war, and the Holocaust / David Shneer.

Imprint New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  770.947 Sh69t 2011    ---  Available
Description xiii, 283 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Series Jewish cultures of the world
Jewish cultures of the world.
Contents How a group of Jews from the provinces built Soviet photojournalism -- Seeing red: Jewish photographers, the rise of the second generation, and Soviet photojournalism of the 1930s -- Soviet Jews on both sides of the camera: the photographs of Jewish agricultural colonies and Birobidzhan -- "Without the newspaper, we are defenseless!": photojournalists and the war -- Picturing grief, documenting crimes: Soviet Holocaust photography -- When Jews talked to Jews: wartime Soviet Yiddish culture and Soviet photographers' Jewishness -- From photojournalism to icons of war and the Holocaust: photographs and photographers after the War -- Epilogue : Soviet Jewish photographers as war heroes.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Photographers -- Soviet Union -- History.
Photographers -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Jewish photographers -- Soviet Union -- History.
Jewish photographers -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Documentary photography -- Soviet Union -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography.
War photography -- Europe, Eastern.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe, Eastern -- Pictorial works.
ISBN 9780813553931 (pbk)
0813553938 (pbk)
9780813548845 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813548845 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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