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Frozen in time: Five figures in a photograph East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Ewa Koźmińska-Frejlak
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 52, No. 2-3, 2022)
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The diary of Bernard Mark (December 1965 – February 1966) East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov
Ber (Bernard) Mark (1908–1966) was born in Łomża, then Congress Poland. Before the Second World War, he joined the Communist Party of Poland (KPP). He spent the war years in the USSR, where he work...
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Jewish Emancipation: A History across Five Centuries East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Eli Lederhendler
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 52, No. 2-3, 2022)
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Romanian-language books published in 2015–2021 East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Camelia Crăciun
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 52, No. 2-3, 2022)
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The prospects and perils of Holocaust research in Communist Poland: The first twenty years of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Stephan Stach
This article analyzes the history of the Jewish Historical Institute (Żydowski Instytut Historyczny; ŻIH) from its creation in the late 1940s until the late 1960s. During this period, ŻIH was not o...
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“To reconstruct this period of martyrdom and heroism”: The Jewish Historical Institute and the Ringelblum Archive, 1946–1989 East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Katarzyna Person
During the years 1946–1989, the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw (Żydowski Instytut Historyczny; ŻIH) was forced to navigate between conflicting imperatives – on the one hand, safeguarding the...
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At the crossroads between Communism and Jewish nationalism: Ber Mark as historian of premodern Jewish society East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Tom Navon
Ber Mark, the longstanding director of ŻIH (1949–1966), is generally considered a regime historian who adhered to the Communist Party line in his histories of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust...
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The dual path of historian Artur Eisenbach East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Aleksandra Bańkowska
This article seeks to reconstruct the biography of Artur Eisenbach, who was both a prominent historian of the nineteenth century and one of the first historians to study the Holocaust. Born in Pola...
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The Jewish Historical Institute and the 1968 antisemitic campaign in Poland East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Stephan Stach, Katrin Stoll
This article analyzes the relentless attacks on the Jewish Historical Institute (Żydowski Instytut Historyczny; ŻIH) in Warsaw in 1967–1968 against the background of two narratives. The first narra...
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The scholarly legacy of Ruta Sakowska East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Samuel D. Kassow, Eleonora Bergman
Ruta Sakowska spent her entire professional career at the Jewish Historical Institute (Żydowski Instytut Historyczny; ŻIH) in Warsaw, and her scholarly legacy is inextricably linked to Oyneg Shabes...
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A social history of the Jewish Historical Institute, 1947–1989 East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Helena Datner
This article focuses on the social history of the Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH) during the era of Communist rule. Among the issues explored are the relationship between the Polish Jewish commun...
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Les Survivants: Les Juifs de Pologne depuis la Shoah East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Thomas Chopard
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 52, No. 2-3, 2022)
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Hebrew-language books published in 2017–2021 East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Yaakov Herskovitz
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 52, No. 2-3, 2022)
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Hungarian-language books published in 2019–mid-2022 East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Ágnes Katalin Kelemen
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 52, No. 2-3, 2022)
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Slovak-language books published in 2018–2021 East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Denisa Nešťáková
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 52, No. 2-3, 2022)
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Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Mikhail Kizilov
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 52, No. 2-3, 2022)
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Polish Statehood and the Jews: Reflections on the Centenary of Polish Independence East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Antony Polonsky
ABSTRACT The reemergence of the Polish state after 130 years of foreign rule (from 1795 to 1918) was the most obvious example of the triumph of the principle of nationality in the post-First World War settlement. The new state, with a population of nearly 26 million, was the largest and most powerful in East Central Europe, and there was a widespread feeling that, with the shedding of foreign rule
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From Judeo-Polonia to Judeo-Communism, 1912–1922 East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Robert Blobaum
ABSTRACT This article discusses Polish nationalists’ fear of “Judeo-Polonia,” a notion that emerged before the First World War, gained considerable traction during the war itself, and then began to morph into “Judeo-Communism” by war's end. Focusing on Warsaw, the article discusses the significance of population movements and demographic shifts, the appearance of new opportunities for political competition
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Anti-Jewish Violence of Polish Troops, 1918–1920: The Case of Bobruisk East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Magdalena Waligórska
ABSTRACT An examination of anti-Jewish violence on the part of Polish troops stationed in Bobruisk (Bel: Babruǐsk; Pol: Bobrujsk) between 1919 and 1920 puts into relief the interconnectedness of antisemitism and Polish nationalist discourse at the time of the consolidation of the Polish state. The relationship between Polish forces and the town's majority — Jews — reflects both Poland's colonial ambitions
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Canonizing Himself: Simon Dubnov’s Book of Life and the Struggle for Hegemony in Jewish Historiography East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Brian Horowitz
ABSTRACT Simon Dubnov is considered the father of Russian Jewish historiography without rivels or peers. An examination of his memoir shows that he intentionally fought with his colleagues and belittled their contributions. The author of this essays tries to answer why and how Dubnov did this.
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Testimony in Place: Witnessing the Holocaust in Belarus East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Anika Walke
ABSTRACT Holocaust killing sites in Eastern Europe are of increasing interest to scholars and the public. This article analyzes the production of video testimonies in situ to consider the question of witnessing the Holocaust in Belarus, where mass graves of Jews are at once ubiquitous and invisible. Foregrounding the French organization Yahad–In Unum's efforts to identify and memorialize these killing
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The Formation and Structure of the Judenräte in the Occupied Territory of the Vitebsk Region (Within Present-day Borders), 1941–1943 East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Gennadiy Vinnitsa
ABSTRACT Although officially designated as representative, self-governing bodies, the Jewish councils (Judenräte) set up in Nazi-controlled territories were essentially tasked with carrying out orders issued by the regime, with at best limited possibilities of mitigating harmful measures against the Jews. This essay, which describes and also notes differences between the Judenräte in eastern and western
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Instytut. 70 lat historii ŻIH w dokumentach źródłowych East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Zofia Wóycicka
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 52, No. 1, 2022)
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“Sviy do svoho po svoye”: sotsial′no-ekonomichnyy vymir natsiotvorchykh stratehiy ukrayintsiv u mizhvoyenniy Pol′shchi [“Each to Their Own”: The Socioeconomic Dimension of Ukrainian Nation-building in Interwar Poland] East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Vladyslava Moskalets
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 52, No. 1, 2022)
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Der Nister's Soviet Years: Yiddish Writer as Witness to the People East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Harriet Murav
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 52, No. 1, 2022)
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It Will Yet Be Heard: A Polish Rabbi's Witness of the Shoah and Survival East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Frank Grelka
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 52, No. 1, 2022)
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Crimea in the Jewish Imagination: An Introduction East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Gennady Estraikh, Amelia M. Glaser
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 51, No. 2-3, 2021)
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The View from the Jews’ Rock: Jewish Poetic Emplacement in Crimea East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Jordan Finkin
ABSTRACT While not a central locale in modern Jewish poetry, Crimea nevertheless garnered the attention of several important poets in significant works. Their interest was galvanized at the intersection of their individual biographies and earlier classic literature on Crimea and the Black Sea. This article will focus on key works by the Hebrew poet Shaul Tshernikhovski and the Yiddish poet Perets Markish
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Unwelcome Memory: Holocaust Monuments in the Soviet Union East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Elissa Bemporad
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 51, No. 2-3, 2021)
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German-language Books Published in 2017–2021 East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Agnieszka Wierzcholska
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 51, No. 2-3, 2021)
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Crimea in the Eyes of East European Karaite Immigrants of the Nineteenth Century: Between Images and Reality East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Golda Akhiezer
ABSTRACT In the 19th century, the Crimean Peninsula became a focus of attraction for educated elites of Polish Karaites, who lived in conditions of poverty and economic competition with Rabbanite Jews in their homeland. The image of Crimea in their eyes was that of a “land of milk and honey” and a prominent center of Torah knowledge. However, a collision with reality soon forced some of these “Ashkenazic”
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Peretz Markish’s Chatyrdag: The Jewish Search for Romantic Poetry East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Valery Dymshits
ABSTRACT Chatrydag (1919), a poem cycle of 36 sonnets, is an early masterpiece of Peretz Markish. Offering one of the first descriptions in Yiddish of the Crimean Peninsula, it can be read as a counterpart to Adam Mickiwicz’s Crimean Sonnets. Markish makes innovative use of modernist poetics within the classical format of the sonnet. As is the case with a number of Russian poets, he presents a romanticized
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Mayakovsky on the Land East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Ludmila Shleyfer Lavine
ABSTRACT It is surprising that Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet whose self-proclaimed mission was to give city streets a language, turned to publicizing farming collectives. No less noteworthy is the fact that this poet of internationalism worked on the ethnocentric project of promoting Jewish agrarian communities in Crimea. This article addresses Mayakovsky’s collaboration on the film Evrei na zemle
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Jews in the Battle for Crimea, 1941–1944 East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Oleg Budnitskii
ABSTRACT On July 4, 1942, the Soviet people heard the sad news that, after 250 days of battle, Sevastopol, “the city of Russian glory,” had fallen. Twenty-two months later, Sevastopol was liberated by the 51st Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front. The army’s commander was Lieutenant General Iakov Kreizer, Hero of the Soviet Union and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Thousands of Jews, soldiers
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The Rise of Ilya Yegudin: An Exemplary Jew in Soviet Agriculture East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Gennady Estraikh
ABSTRACT As opposed to the close attention accorded to various aspects of Jewish emigration from the USSR, there has been remarkably little scholarly analysis of Jews who felt comfortable, congenial, and secure in Soviet society. In reality, thousands of Jews belonged to the elite of a local, regional, or national level, or even played some roles at all the levels. In Crimea, the collective farm chairman
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The Past and Its Presence: A Study of Multidirectional Memory in Akhtem Seitablaiev’s 87 Children (2017) East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Yuliya V. Ladygina
ABSTRACT This article examines Akhtem Seitablaiev’s 2017 film, 87 Children, which depicts Stalin’s 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars through the prism of another genocide – the Nazis’ 1941–1943 murder of Crimean Jews. It uses Michael Rothberg’s theory of multidirectional memory to illustrate how the history of the Holocaust, Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars, and the personal story of
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The Peninsula of Utopias: Reactions to the Annexation of Crimea in Contemporary Russophone Poetry East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Polina Barskova
ABSTRACT In this article, I seek to trace two main agendas of contemporary Russophone poetry about Crimea: namely, to react to the re-annexation of 2014 by Russia, and, in so doing, to inscribe this event into the preceding poetic tradition of writing on Crimea in terms of continuity or juxtaposition. Analysis of the anthology Our Crimea (2014) reveals intense polyphony, from the problematization of
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On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Olga Linkiewicz
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 51, No. 2-3, 2021)
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The Soviet Genizah: New Archival Research on the History of Jews in the USSR (vol. 1) East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Alex Valdman
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 51, No. 2-3, 2021)
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Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place, and Holocaust Testimony East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Eliyana R. Adler
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 51, No. 2-3, 2021)
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Yiddish in Israel: A History East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Kenneth B. Moss
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 51, No. 2-3, 2021)
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French-language Books Published in France in 2016–2021 East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Constance Pâris de Bollardière
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 51, No. 2-3, 2021)
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Japanese-language Books Published in 2016–2020 East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Yuu Nishimura
Among the materials published in Japanese that may be of interest to EEJA readers, brief summaries have been provided for selected scholarly titles. Other works that are geared more toward a general audience are listed without summaries. Titles are listed in alphabetical order, by author (with author’s first name preceding family name).
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Lithuanian Listings, 2018–2020: New Microhistories East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Michael Casper
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 51, No. 2-3, 2021)
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Ukrainian-language Books Published in 2018–2021 East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Vladyslava Moskalets
Published in East European Jewish Affairs (Vol. 51, No. 2-3, 2021)
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Science against Injustice: A Literary Investigation of Vladimir Bogoraz's Silhouettes from Gomel’ East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Nadja Berkovich
ABSTRACT In 1904, Vladimir Bogoraz went to Gomel’, a city in the province of Mogilev in the central-west of the Russian Empire, to interview Russians and Jews and to report on a trial relating to a pogrom that had occurred there in September 1903. The semi-fictional work that resulted, Silhouettes from Gomel’: Sketches (Gomel’skie siluety. Ocherki), which Bogoraz published under the pseudonym Tan,
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Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Antonio Gramsci, and the Myth of Niccolò Machiavelli East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Maya Balakirsky Katz
ABSTRACT This paper reconsiders the criticism to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion during its initial publication and after its resurgence during the 1917 Russian Revolution. It argues that scholars have overemphasized repudiations of the text’s archaic antisemitism and plagiarism at the expense of critiques focusing on its modernist invective against “media control.” The paper recovers the issue
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Bulgaria as Rescuer? Film Footage of the March 1943 Deportation and Its Reception across the Iron Curtain East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Nadège Ragaru
ABSTRACT The March 1943 deportation of Jews from Bulgarian-held territories in Greece left few visual traces. Among them is a silent film, with oddly edited footage. This article reconstructs the afterlife of this footage during the Cold War, tracking its multiple uses and transformations. In so doing, it sheds light on the production of knowledge about the Holocaust and the transnational history of
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Genealogical Writing and Memory of the Holocaust in Lithuania East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Violeta Davoliūtė
ABSTRACT Diverse works of autobiographical non-fiction on the Holocaust in Lithuania reflect a pattern of generational memory familiar to students of German historical memory, but with key differences. Cold War taboos against discussions of local participation in the Holocaust delayed the appearance of second-generation Holocaust memory until the post-Soviet 1990s, such that it coincided with the natural
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Zoya Cherkassky’s Collection Judaica: Immigration and the “Making Strange” of Jewish Art East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Liliya Dashevski
ABSTRACT This essay analyzes Zoya Cherkassky’s early project, first presented in 2003, titled Collection Judaica (Kolektziyat yudaikah). I examine Collection Judaica not only in relation to Jewish art history, but also in the context of immigration studies. Collection Judaica aimed to explore Jewish self-perception “through an antisemitic gaze.” By means of defamiliarization (ostranenie), Cherkassky
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“No Innocent Words”: Nachman Blumental’s Metaphorology Project and the Cultural History of the Holocaust East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Karolina Szymaniak
ABSTRACT Nachman Blumental (1902–1983) belongs to a group of early Holocaust historians whose work is being rediscovered by contemporary scholars. Especially noteworthy is Blumental's work on the language of Holocaust victims and perpetrators. This article explores the connection between this work and Blumental's prewar studies in the field of Polish and Yiddish literary theory, focusing on his project
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Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish poetry of struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Eli Rosenblatt
(2021). Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish poetry of struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 127-129.
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Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: a memoir of the Gulag East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Lidia Zessin-Jurek
(2021). Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: a memoir of the Gulag. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 129-131.
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The Book Smugglers: partisans, poets, and the race to save Jewish treasures from the Nazis East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Hannah Pollin-Galay
(2021). The Book Smugglers: partisans, poets, and the race to save Jewish treasures from the Nazis. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 131-134.
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The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Nick Underwood
(2021). The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 134-136.
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Rachel Feldhay Brenner: In Memoriam East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Rachel S. Harris
(2021). Rachel Feldhay Brenner: In Memoriam. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 137-138.
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Introduction: Looking Back Towards the Future: Fifty Years of Soviet Jewish Affairs/East European Jewish Affairs East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-04-20 Nick Underwood
(2020). Introduction: Looking Back Towards the Future: Fifty Years of Soviet Jewish Affairs/East European Jewish Affairs. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 273-274.
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Fifty Years After the Refusenik Movement: How Post-Soviet Jews Have Proven Triumphant East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-04-20 Gregg Drinkwater, David Shneer
(2020). Fifty Years After the Refusenik Movement: How Post-Soviet Jews Have Proven Triumphant. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 275-280.
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US Cold War Immigration Policy, Human Rights, and the Soviet Jewry Movement: Reflections on William Korey’s “The Right to Leave for Soviet Jews – Legal and Moral Aspects.” East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-04-20 Rebecca Kobrin
(2020). US Cold War Immigration Policy, Human Rights, and the Soviet Jewry Movement: Reflections on William Korey’s “The Right to Leave for Soviet Jews – Legal and Moral Aspects.”. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 281-283.
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Commentary on William Korey’s “the ‘Right to Leave’ for Soviet Jews: Legal and Moral Aspects” East European Jewish Affairs (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-04-20 Shaul Kelner
(2020). Commentary on William Korey’s “the ‘Right to Leave’ for Soviet Jews: Legal and Moral Aspects”. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 284-286.