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Author: Anika Walke (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 16.00cm
Weight: 0.592kg
ISBN: 9780199335534
ISBN 10: 0199335532
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 27 August 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Walke's study is a valuable contribution to the social history of the Holocaust. Leonid Rein, American Historical Review
outstanding ... Pioneers and Partisans is an excellent contribution to the history and memory of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, a book whose author has pondered thoughtfully the ethical and political implications of her scholarship. It addresses complex theoretical concerns without sacrificing narrative flow. That is a difficult task for any author, and Anika Walke has accomplished it beautifully. -- Emil Kerenji, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Written well and with clarity, this book is well worth reading. It contains many interesting observations and provides much information that helps us understand the Holocaust in Belorussia. -- Arkadi Zeltser, ournal of Soviet & Post-Soviet Politics & Society This book offers a rich, multilayered look at that region and era, also bringing to light the part played by women and children. Recommended for academic Holocaust collections. --Hallie Cantor, Association of Jewish Libraries Anika Walke's book is an important contribution to the study of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe and the history of Belarusian Jewry. --Andrej Kotljarchuk, H-Net The biggest strength of Anila Walke's work is her detailed analysis of the interaction between experience and memory in a context that, in terms of the politics of memory, is highly charged. She manages to embed the experience of the Holocaust in the overall life story of her interviewees and places it in a distinct geographical space. At the same time, she manages to give a voice to precisely those victims, whose traumatic experiences and losses had been marginalized in their home country for decades. --Kerstin Baur, Sehepunkte Walke's study...is an important contribution to the history of one of the largest ghettos in Eastern Europe...Walke shows herself to be a sensitive interviewer and an inquisitive oral historian. The book advances our understanding of the work of memory, its sociocultural context, and silencing mechanisms...Pioneers and Partisans has great potential to become required reading on the Jewish history of the Soviet Union...The book can be recommended for oral historians and anthropologists who wish to strengthen their methodology, since it gives a fascinating example of how interviews may be used. Pioneers and Partisans will also be of interest to a broader audience, as it is a highly professional account with a significant emotional component. --Volha Bartash, The Oral History Review Walke's study is a valuable contribution to the social history of the Holocaust. --The American Historical Review In the best traditions of oral history, Pioneers and Partisans is the only book that brings to life the totality of the Soviet Jewish experience--from the utopian, internationalist hopes of the early Soviet period and the utter destruction of Nazi occupation to postwar Soviet silencing and then post-Soviet memory creation--from the perspective of those who lived it. --David Shneer, Louis P. Singer Chair in Jewish History, University of Colorado, and author of Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust In this gripping and intimate history, Anika Walke provides one of the first studies of Nazi genocide of Jews in the former Soviet Union. The Soviet state celebrated Soviet Jewish partisans as anti-fascist fighters, yet it erased the genocide of the Jews from its official narrative of the war. Using interviews and archives, Walke reconstructs a prewar life of socialist promise, Nazi mass murder, the partisan struggle, and the shaping of memory in the postwar Soviet Union. With deep empathy and grace, she reconstructs the lives of the survivors and the meanings they gave to their own history. --Wendy Z. Goldman, Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University Pioneers and Partisans draws on the life histories of now-elderly child survivors to show how the Nazi occupation and genocide in Belorussia disrupted and ultimately reconfigured Jewish and Soviet identities and communities. With remarkable sensitivity and methodological sophistication, Walke attends to hesitations and inconsistencies in interviews and oral testimonies, tracing the effects of age and gender on women's and men's memories of their prewar childhoods, their wartime struggles to survive and resist, and their postwar lives. --Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, author of Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1945: Myth, Memories, and Monuments
In the best traditions of oral history, Pioneers and Partisans is the only book that brings to life the totality of the Soviet Jewish experience--from the utopian, internationalist hopes of the early Soviet period and the utter destruction of Nazi occupation to postwar Soviet silencing and then post-Soviet memory creation--from the perspective of those who lived it. --David Shneer, Louis P. Singer Chair in Jewish History, University of Colorado, and author of Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust In this gripping and intimate history, Anika Walke provides one of the first studies of Nazi genocide of Jews in the former Soviet Union. The Soviet state celebrated Soviet Jewish partisans as anti-fascist fighters, yet it erased the genocide of the Jews from its official narrative of the war. Using interviews and archives, Walke reconstructs a prewar life of socialist promise, Nazi mass murder, the partisan struggle, and the shaping of memory in the postwar Soviet Union. With deep empathy and grace, she reconstructs the lives of the survivors and the meanings they gave to their own history. --Wendy Z. Goldman, Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University Pioneers and Partisans draws on the life histories of now-elderly child survivors to show how the Nazi occupation and genocide in Belorussia disrupted and ultimately reconfigured Jewish and Soviet identities and communities. With remarkable sensitivity and methodological sophistication, Walke attends to hesitations and inconsistencies in interviews and oral testimonies, tracing the effects of age and gender on women's and men's memories of their prewar childhoods, their wartime struggles to survive and resist, and their postwar lives. --Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, author of Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1945: Myth, Memories, and Monuments
Walke's study is an important contribution to the history of one of the largest ghettos in Eastern Europe Walke shows herself to be a sensitive interviewer and an inquisitive oral historian. The book advances our understanding of the work of memory, its sociocultural context, and silencing mechanisms Pioneers and Partisans has great potential to become required reading on the Jewish history of the Soviet Union The book can be recommended for oral historians and anthropologists who wish to strengthen their methodology, since it gives a fascinating example of how interviews may be used. Pioneers and Partisans will also be of interest to a broader audience, as it is a highly professional account with a significant emotional component. --The Oral History Review Walke's study is a valuable contribution to the social history of the Holocaust. --The American Historical Review In the best traditions of oral history, Pioneers and Partisans is the only book that brings to life the totality of the Soviet Jewish experience--from the utopian, internationalist hopes of the early Soviet period and the utter destruction of Nazi occupation to postwar Soviet silencing and then post-Soviet memory creation--from the perspective of those who lived it. --David Shneer, Louis P. Singer Chair in Jewish History, University of Colorado, and author of Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust In this gripping and intimate history, Anika Walke provides one of the first studies of Nazi genocide of Jews in the former Soviet Union. The Soviet state celebrated Soviet Jewish partisans as anti-fascist fighters, yet it erased the genocide of the Jews from its official narrative of the war. Using interviews and archives, Walke reconstructs a prewar life of socialist promise, Nazi mass murder, the partisan struggle, and the shaping of memory in the postwar Soviet Union. With deep empathy and grace, she reconstructs the lives of the survivors and the meanings they gave to their own history. --Wendy Z. Goldman, Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University Pioneers and Partisans draws on the life histories of now-elderly child survivors to show how the Nazi occupation and genocide in Belorussia disrupted and ultimately reconfigured Jewish and Soviet identities and communities. With remarkable sensitivity and methodological sophistication, Walke attends to hesitations and inconsistencies in interviews and oral testimonies, tracing the effects of age and gender on women's and men's memories of their prewar childhoods, their wartime struggles to survive and resist, and their postwar lives. --Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, author of Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1945: Myth, Memories, and Monuments
Author Information
Anika Walke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis.
