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  • The New Jewish Diaspora

    Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany

    by Zvi Gitelman, Mark Tolts, Uzi Rebhun, Marina Sapritsky, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Hannah Pollin-Galay, Steven J. Gold, Olena Bagno-Moldavski, Yaacov Ro'i, Gur Ofer0, Eliezer Ben-Rafael1, Sveta Roberman2, Elena Nosenko-Shtein3, Nelly Elias4, Julia Lerner5, Anna Shternshis6, Mikhail Krutikov7, Stephanie Sandler8, Adrian Wanner9 ...
    In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration has made deep marks on the social, cultural, and political terrain of many countries, in ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Jewish Lives Under Communism

    New Perspectives

    by Katerina Capková, Kamil Kijek, Stephan Stach, Valery Dymshits, Diana Dumitru, Anna Shternshis, Anna Koch, Agata Maksimowska, David Shneer0, Gennady Estraikh1, Marcos Silber2, Galina Zelenina3, Kata Bohus4 ...
    This volume provides new, groundbreaking views of Jewish life in various countries of the pro-Soviet bloc from the end of the Second World War until the collapse of Communism in late 1989. The authors, twelve leading historians and anthropologists from Europe, Israel and the United States, look at the experience of Jews under Communism by digging beyond formal state policy and instead examining ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • When Sonia Met Boris

    An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin

    by Anna Shternshis ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    Soviet Jews lived through a record number of traumatic events: the Great Terror, World War II, the Holocaust, the Famine of 1947, the Doctors' Plot, the antisemitic policies of the postwar period, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. But like millions of other Soviet citizens, they married, raised children, and built careers, pursuing life as best as they could in a profoundly hostile environment ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Jews in the Soviet Union: A History

    Postwar Life, Hopes, and Fears, 1945–1953, Volume 4

    by Anna Shternshis ...
    Offers a compelling account of how Soviet Jews rebuilt their lives amid postwar devastation, rising hostility, discrimination and the repressive final years of Stalin’s ruleAt 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 ... Read more

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  • Jews in the Soviet Union: A History

    War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939–1945, Volume 3

    by Oleg Budnitskii, David Engel, Gennady Estraikh, Anna Shternshis ...
    Provides a comprehensive history of Soviet Jewry during World War IIAt 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 ... Read more

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  • Stalin's Genocides

    by Norman M. Naimark ...
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    Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the ... Read more

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  • The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv

    A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists

    by Tarik Cyril Amar ...
    The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of Lviv into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Lviv's twentieth-century history was marked by violence, population changes, and fundamental transformation ethnically, linguistically, and in terms of its residents' self-perception. Against this background, Tarik Cyril Amar ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust

    A New History

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  • In the Shadow of the Shtetl

    Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine

    by Jeffrey Veidlinger ...
    A history based on interviews with hundreds of Ukrainian Jews who survived both Hitler and Stalin, recounting experiences ordinary and extraordinary.The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some four ... Read more

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  • Who Will Write Our History?

    Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive

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    In 1940, the historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine organization, code named Oyneg Shabes, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw to study and document all facets of Jewish life in wartime Poland and to compile an archive that would preserve this history for posterity. As the Final Solution unfolded, although decimated by murders and deportations, the group persevered in its work until the spring ... Read more

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  • Survival on the Margins

    Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union

    by Eliyana R. Adler ...
    Co-winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust ResearchThe forgotten story of 200,000 Polish Jews who escaped the Holocaust as refugees stranded in remote corners of the USSR.Between 1940 and 1946, about 200,000 Jewish refugees from Poland lived and toiled in the harsh Soviet interior. They endured hard labor, bitter cold, and extreme deprivation. But out of reach of the Nazis, ... Read more

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