The Minsk Ghetto 1941–1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism, Barbara Epstein (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 351 + pp., hardcover 39.95, £27.95
From August 1941 to October 1943, about 100,000 Jews were ghettoized in Minsk, the occupied capital of Soviet Belorussia. Barbara Epstein tells the little-known story of the valiant effort to help Jews escape into the dense forests nearby, where they might find units of Soviet partisans. About 10,00...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 120-122 |
| Review of: | The Minsk ghetto, 1941 - 1943 (Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] : Univ. of California Press, 2008) (Shapiro, Robert Moses)
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| Summary: | From August 1941 to October 1943, about 100,000 Jews were ghettoized in Minsk, the occupied capital of Soviet Belorussia. Barbara Epstein tells the little-known story of the valiant effort to help Jews escape into the dense forests nearby, where they might find units of Soviet partisans. About 10,000 Jews succeeded; perhaps half surviving until the return of the Red Army in 1944. Barbara Epstein cites various reasons for the relative neglect of this history, including Western Jews' fixation on the Warsaw ghetto resistance and their anticommunist bias, which blinded them to the inspiring image of interethnic (if Soviet-style) cooperation in occupied Minsk. Epstein concludes, “from the vantage point of the … twenty-first century, armed struggle seems less inspiring than it once may have. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcq006 |