Through Soviet Jewish Eyes : : Photography, War, and the Holocaust /

Through Soviet Jewish Eyes : : Photography, War, and the Holocaust / / David Shneer.

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Most 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 S...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Shneer, David,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2010]
©2012
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Jewish Cultures of the World
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One. When Photography Was Jewish
  • 1. How a Group of Jews from the Provinces Built Soviet Photojournalism
  • 2. Seeing Red: Jewish Photographers, the Rise of the Second Generation, and Soviet Photojournalism of the 1930s
  • 3. Soviet Jews on Both Sides of the Camera: The Photographs of Jewish Agricultural Colonies and Birobidzhan
  • Part Two. Soviet Jewish Photographers Confront World War II and the Holocaust
  • 4. "Without the Newspaper,We Are Defenseless!": Photojournalists and the War
  • 5. Picturing Grief, Documenting Crimes: Soviet Holocaust Photography
  • 6. When Jews Talked to Jews:Wartime Soviet Yiddish Culture and Soviet Photographers' Jewishness
  • 7. From Photojournalism to Icons of War and the Holocaust: Photographs and Photographers after the War
  • Epilogue. Soviet Jewish Photographers as War Heroes
  • Notes
  • Index

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