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• Commended for National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust) 2011

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David Shneer's utterly original and fascinating new book opens a whole new way of seeing 'through Soviet Jewish eyes.' It is a treasure-trove of Soviet-Jewish World World II-era photographs, many of them published here for the first time, and a brilliant guide to their surrounding historical content. --James E. Young author of The Texture of Memory and At Memory's Edge

David Shneer''s utterly original and fascinating new book opens a whole new way of seeing ''through Soviet Jewish eyes.'' It is a treasure-trove of Soviet-Jewish World World II-era photographs, many of them published here for the first time, and a brilliant guide to their surrounding historical content. --James E. Young author of The Texture of Memory and At Memory's Edge

This book provides visual evidence that promises to revise significantly popular and historical understanding of the Holocaust as it occurred in places, unlike Auschwitz, where there were no survivors. --Joan Neuberger University of Texas at Austin David Shneer''s utterly original and fascinating new book opens a whole new way of seeing ''through Soviet Jewish eyes.'' It is a treasure-trove of Soviet-Jewish World World II-era photographs, many of them published here for the first time, and a brilliant guide to their surrounding historical content. --James E. Young author of The Texture of Memory and At Memory's Edge David Shneer's utterly original and fascinating new book opens a whole new way of seeing 'through Soviet Jewish eyes.' It is a treasure-trove of Soviet-Jewish World World II-era photographs, many of them published here for the first time, and a brilliant guide to their surrounding historical content. --James E. Young author of The Texture of Memory and At Memory's Edge

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DAVID SHNEER is associate professor of history and director of Jewish studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His books include Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.

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