Overview
This is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family. It is also the first study to examine Jewish life in the Northern Caucasus, a Soviet region that history scholars have rarely addressed. Drawing on a collection of family letters, Kiril Feferman provides a history of the Ginsburgs as they debate whether to evacuate their home of Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia and are eventually swept away by the Soviet-German War, the German invasion of Soviet Russia, and the Holocaust. The book makes a significant contribution to the history of the Holocaust and Second World War in the Soviet Union, presenting one Soviet region as an illustration of wartime social and media politics.
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Author: Kiril Feferman
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Weight: 0.333kg
ISBN: 9781644692912
ISBN 10: 1644692910
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 02 July 2020
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The author successfully 'combined in his book the history from above and history from below, general description of the Soviet-German War, the evacuation experience and the Holocaust' with the history of the Ginsburg family. ... The book is very well written, but it is hard to read emotionally, because you know from the beginning the tragic fate of the family. Feferman's work explains the factors that influenced the decisions of Soviet Jews whether or not to go into evacuation, and it shows in detail the enormous difficulties which faced Jews during the evacuation. The monograph also brings to light many aspects of the Soviet-German War in North Caucasus and the Holocaust. -Victoria Khiterer, Millersville University, Russian Review
The author successfully 'combined in his book the history from above and history from below, general description of the Soviet-German War, the evacuation experience and the Holocaust' with the history of the Ginsburg family. ... The book is very well written, but it is hard to read emotionally, because you know from the beginning the tragic fate of the family. Feferman's work explains the factors that influenced the decisions of Soviet Jews whether or not to go into evacuation, and it shows in detail the enormous difficulties which faced Jews during the evacuation. The monograph also brings to light many aspects of the Soviet-German War in North Caucasus and the Holocaust. --Victoria Khiterer, Millersville University, Russian Review
Author Information
Kiril Feferman teaches at Ariel University and is the head of Ariel's Holocaust History Center. He has more than fifteen years of experience researching Holocaust history, contemporary Jewish history in the broader East European region, and the Second World War and has published extensively on these topics.
