Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet UnionEliyana R. Adler
“Jewish luck,” Eliyana R. Adler ironically writes, shines forth in the “bizarre fact that Joseph Stalin’s deportation of a selection of Polish Jews effectively saved them from Adolf Hitler’s murderous regime” (p. 101). One Jewish audience laughed bitterly at her reflection that Yad Vashem should pla...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 466-468 |
| Review of: | Survival on the margins (Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020) (Hagen, William W.)
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| Summary: | “Jewish luck,” Eliyana R. Adler ironically writes, shines forth in the “bizarre fact that Joseph Stalin’s deportation of a selection of Polish Jews effectively saved them from Adolf Hitler’s murderous regime” (p. 101). One Jewish audience laughed bitterly at her reflection that Yad Vashem should plant “a particularly large tree” for the Soviet dictator (p. 284). Yet Stalinist policy enabled, as this book successfully aims to demonstrate, the expansion of the “compass of survival” among Polish Jews, so that in the postwar Displaced Persons camps of West Germany, the “Surviving Remnant” of East European Jewry consisted predominantly of Jews who found refuge after 1939 in the USSR and at war’s end were allowed to “repatriate” westward. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcab044 |