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
TimelineIntroduction
Historical BackgroundChapter 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 CorrespondenceChapter 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
