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1 online resource (xvi, 423 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Prologue -- New lands, new subjects -- Disfigurment -- Spaces for survival -- The Front -- Leadership -- The rear -- Appendix: How many Jews served in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War? |
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Provides a comprehensive history of Soviet Jewry during World War II. At the beginning of the twentieth century, more Jews lived in the Russian Empire than anywhere else in the world. After the Holocaust, the USSR remained one of the world's three key centers of Jewish population, along with the United States and Israel. While a great deal is known about the history and experiences of the Jewish people in the US and in Israel in the twentieth century, much less is known about the experiences of Soviet Jews. Understanding the history of Jewish communities under Soviet rule is essential to comprehending the dynamics of Jewish history in the modern world. Only a small number of scholars and the last generation of Soviet Jews who lived during this period hold a deep knowledge of this history. Jews in the Soviet Union, a new multi-volume history, is an unprecedented undertaking. Publishing over the next few years, this groundbreaking work draws on rare access to documents from the Soviet archives, allowing for the presentation of a sweeping history of Jewish life in the Soviet Union from 1917 through the early 1990s. Volume 3 explores how the Soviet Union's changing relations with Nazi Germany between the signing of a nonaggression pact in August 1939 and the Soviet victory over German forces in World War II affected the lives of some five million Jews who lived under Soviet rule at the beginning of that period. Nearly three million of those Jews perished; those who remained constituted a drastically diminished group, which represented a truncated but still numerically significant postwar Soviet Jewish community.-- Provided by publisher. |
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In English. |
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Print version record. |
| Subject |
Jews -- Soviet Union -- History.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Soviet Union.
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Juifs -- URSS -- Histoire.
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Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Juifs -- URSS.
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HISTORY / Jewish.
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Jews
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Soviet Union
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World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBbhpRH9XvjbDFXtxhb |
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1939-1945
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History
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Budnitski, O. V., author. Author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
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Engel, David (Professor), author. Author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
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strakh, G. (Gennadi), author. Author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
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Shternshis, Anna, author.
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War, conquest, and catastrophe, 1939-1945 |
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Print version: Eugene Shvidler Project for the History of the Jews in the Soviet Union. Jews in the Soviet Union. New York : New York University Press, [2022-] 9781479819461 (DLC) 2022015952 (OCoLC)1313798701 |
| ISBN |
9781479819454 (electronic bk.) |
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147981945X (electronic bk.) |
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9781479819447 (electronic bk.) |
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1479819441 (electronic bk.) |
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9781479819430 hardback |
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1479819433 hardback |
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10.18574/nyu/9781479819454.001.0001 doi |
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