Through Soviet Jewish Eyes Photography, War, and the Holocaust

Name: Through Soviet Jewish Eyes Photography, War, and the Holocaust
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ISBN: 9780813553931

ISBN-10: 0813553938

ISBN-13: 9780813553931

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Shneer

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Finalist for the 2011 National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust categoryMost view the relationship of Jews to the Soviet Union through the lens of repression and silence. Focusing on an elite group of two dozen Soviet-Jewish photographers, including Arkady Shaykhet, Alexander Grinberg, Mark Markov-Grinberg, Evgenii Khaldei, Dmitrii Baltermants, and Max Alpert,Through Soviet Jewish Eyespresents a different picture. These artists participated in a social project they believed in and with which they were emotionally and intellectually invested-they were charged by the Stalinist state to tell the visual story of the unprecedented horror we now call the Holocaust.These wartime photographers…

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 2/22/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

David Shneer is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



When Photography Was Jewish



How a Group of Jews from the Provinces Built Soviet Photojournalism



Seeing Red: Jewish Photographers, the Rise of the Second Generation, and Soviet Photojournalism of the 1930s



Soviet Jews on Both Sides of the Camera: The Photographs of Jewish Agricultural Colonies and Birobidzhan



Soviet Jewish Photographers Confront World War II and the Holocaust



"Without the Newspaper, We Are Defenseless!": Photojournalists and the War



Picturing Grief, Documenting Crimes: Soviet Holocaust Photography



When Jews Talked to Jews: Wartime Soviet Yiddish Culture and Soviet Photographers' Jewishness



From Photojournalism to Icons of War and the Holocaust: Photographs and Photographers after the War


Epilogue: Soviet Jewish Photographers as War Heroes


Notes


Index