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Winner of the 2022 PIASA Anna M. Cienciala Award for the Best Edited Book in Polish StudiesThe majority of Poland's prewar Jewish population who fled tothe interior of the Soviet Unionmanaged to survive World War II and the Holocaust. This collection of original essays tells the story of more than 200,000 Polish Jews who came to a foreign country as war refugees, forced laborers, or political prisoners. This diverse set of experiences is covered by historians, literary and memory scholars, and sociologists who specialize in the field of East European Jewish history and culture.

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Author:   Katharina Friedla ,  Markus Nesselrodt
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
Imprint:   Academic Studies Press
ISBN:  

9781644697498

ISBN 10:   1644697491
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   30 December 2021
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Table of ContentsNote on Translations, Transliterations, and Place Names Antony Polonsky Foreword Katharina Friedla / Markus Nesselrodt Introduction Part One: History Markus Nesselrodt Who, When, and Why? Escaping German Occupation in 1939 versus 1941 Eliyana Adler Children in Exile: Wartime Journeys of Polish Jewish Youth Albert Kaganovitch Together and Apart. Poles and Polish Jews in the War-Torn Soviet Union Katharina Friedla “I’m rushing with millions of others to the battlefield”—Jewish Soldiers in the Polish Army in the Soviet Union, 1943–1946 Wojciech Marciniak Repatriation of Polish Catholics and Jews from Distant Parts of the Soviet Union in Polish-Soviet Relations (1944–1947) Serafima Velkovich Polish Citizenship as a Way to Freedom: How Soviet Jews Escaped the USSR Using Polish Documents Miriam Schulz The Deepest Self Denies the Face: Polish Jewish Intellectuals and the Birth of the “Soviet Marrano” Gennady Estraikh Hersh Smolar: A Polish Personage in the Soviet Jewish Cultural Scene, 1940s–1960s Part Two: Memory Natalie Belsky Contested Memories: Soviet and Polish Jewish Refugees and Evacuees Recount Their Experience on the Soviet Home Front John Goldlust Neither “Victims” nor “Survivors”: Polish Jews Reflect on Their Wartime Experiences in the Soviet Union During the Second World War Lidia Zessin-Jurek A Matzeva Amid Crosses: Jewish Exiles in the Polish Memory of Siberia Przemysław Kaniecki and Renata Piątkowska Before, During, and After: The Objects and Archival Material in the POLIN Museum Mark Edele Epilogue Bibliography Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Index of Places Index of Names

Reviews

“[T]he volume demonstrates the strong development that research on Polish Jews in the Soviet Union has taken in recent years, and it also hints at the direction that future research may further evolve.” — Kai Struve, Slavic Review

”The various articles, along with the bibliography and Edele’s ‘paths ahead’ discus- sion in the epilogue (pp. 287–289), should greatly benefit both the general public and scholars who are interested in such topics as the Holocaust, the history of the Second World War, East European Jewry, Soviet Union studies, and Polish studies. More spe- cifically, it is an important contribution to the understanding of a unique and impor- tant part of the Polish Jewish experience during the war.” — Na’ama Seri-Levi, The Hebrew University, Yad Vashem, Contemporary Jewry “[T]he volume demonstrates the strong development that research on Polish Jews in the Soviet Union has taken in recent years, and it also hints at the direction that future research may further evolve.” — Kai Struve, Slavic Review

Author Information

Katharina Friedla is a historian specializing in East European and Jewish history, with a major focus on nationalism and identity politics, culture, state ideology, and forced migrations. Markus Nesselrodt is a historian of East European history and specializes in Polish history, history of migration, and urban history.

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