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I Saw It: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah

By Maxim D. Shrayer

Book information

Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781618111913, 9781618111692
LCC
PG3476.S42 -- Z864 2013eb
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
71 MB (74812829 bytes)
Series
Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
346\346
Time added
2023-08-29 22:46:46
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Description

In this ground-breaking book, based on archival and field research and previously unknown historical evidence, Maxim D. Shrayer introduces the work of Ilya Selvinsky, the first Jewish-Russian poet to depict the Holocaust (Shoah) in the occupied Soviet territories. In January 1942, while serving as a military journalist, Selvinsky witnessed the immediate aftermath of the massacre of thousands of Jews outside the Crimean city of Kerch, and thereafter composed and published poems about it. Shrayer painstakingly reconstructs the details of the Nazi atrocities witnessed by Selvinsky, and shows that in 1943, as Stalin's regime increasingly refused to report the annihilation of Jews in the occupied territories, Selvinsky paid a high price for his writings and actions. This book features over 60 rare photographs and illustrations and includes translations of Selvinsky's principal Shoah poems.

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