"If We Had Wings We Would Fly to You" - A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction, 1941-42

This is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family. The book makes a significant contribution to the history of the Holocaust and Second World War in the Soviet Union, presenting one Soviet region as an illustration of wartime social and media politics.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Timeline
Introduction
Historical Background
Chapter 1.1. The Ginsburg Family in the North Caucasus
Chapter 1.2. Soviet Population Evacuation into the North Caucasus, 1941–42
Chapter 1.3. The Holocaust in the North Caucasus
The Ginsburg Family Correspondence
Chapter 2. 1941
Chapter 3. 1942–43
Conclusion
List of Letters in the Ginsburg collection
Bibliography

About the author

Kiril Feferman teaches at Ariel University and is the head of Ariel¿s Holocaust History Center. He has more than fifteen years of experience researching Holocaust history, contemporary Jewish history in the broader East European region, and the Second World War and has published extensively on these topics.

Summary

The first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family. It is also the first study to examine Jewish life in the Northern Caucasus, a Soviet region that history scholars have rarely addressed.

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“The author successfully ‘combined in his book the history from above and history from below, general description of the Soviet-German War, the evacuation experience and the Holocaust’ with the history of the Ginsburg family. … The book is very well written, but it is hard to read emotionally, because you know from the beginning the tragic fate of the family. Feferman’s work explains the factors that influenced the decisions of Soviet Jews whether or not to go into evacuation, and it shows in detail the enormous difficulties which faced Jews during the evacuation. The monograph also brings to light many aspects of the Soviet-German War in North Caucasus and the Holocaust.”
—Victoria Khiterer, Millersville University, Russian Review

Product details

Authors	Kiril Feferman
Publisher	Academic Studies Press
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	30.06.2020
EAN	9781644692905
ISBN	978-1-64469-290-5
No. of pages	322
Dimensions	156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
Weight	626 g
Series	Jews of Russia & Eastern Europ; Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

Product details

• Authors: Kiril Feferman
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781644692905
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-290-5
• No. of pages: 322
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 626 g
• Series: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europ; Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous