First Films of the Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and the Genocide of the Jews, 1938–1946, Jeremy Hicks (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), iii + 300 pp., pbk. 28.95The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe, Olga Gershenson (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013), ii + 276 pp., pbk. 29.25, electronic version available

Two new studies challenge received opinions about how the Soviet Union represented the persecution and mass murder of the Jews before, during, and after the “Great Patriotic War.” Many standard histories of World War II and its aftermath in the USSR—Alexander Werth's classic Russia at War (1964...

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Auteur principal: Liebman, Stuart (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Review
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Oxford University Press 2014
Dans: Holocaust and genocide studies
Année: 2014, Volume: 28, Numéro: 2, Pages: 343-348
Compte rendu de:First films of the Holocaust (Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012) (Liebman, Stuart)
First films of the Holocaust (Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012) (Liebman, Stuart)
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Résumé:Two new studies challenge received opinions about how the Soviet Union represented the persecution and mass murder of the Jews before, during, and after the “Great Patriotic War.” Many standard histories of World War II and its aftermath in the USSR—Alexander Werth's classic Russia at War (1964), Amir Weiner's Making Sense of War (2001), and Yitzhak Arad's recent The Holocaust in the Soviet Union (2009) are representative examples—underscore the ambivalence, indeed, the outright hostility, of Soviet authorities toward singling out Jews as the Nazis' particular targets.
ISSN:1476-7937
Contient:Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcu031