"If We Had Wings We Would Fly to You": A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction, 1941-42 Contributor(s): Feferman, Kiril (Author) |
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ISBN: 1644692910 ISBN-13: 9781644692912 Publisher: Academic Studies Press OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - History | Military - World War Ii - Political Science | World - Russian & Former Soviet Union |
Dewey: 940.531 |
LCCN: 2019051618 |
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.00 lbs) 322 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |