Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union during World War II / / ed. by Yehuda Merin, Jack Nusan Porter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Andreyev, V.A.,; Avruch, Zev,; Belsky, I.A.,; Berkin, S.,; Blanstein, David,; Braiko, P.Ye.,; Brinsky, A.P.,; Bronstein, Dov,; Cherny, O.,; Davydovsky, S.,; Ehrenburg, Ilya,; Eisenstadt, Mira,; Fedorov, A.P.,; Flash, Asher,; Galperin, D.,; Gaman, Shirka,; Gazit, Micha,; Gerasimova, V.,; Kapusta, P.P.,; Klokov, V.,; Klurman, Abba,; Konishchuk, Nikolai,; Kuzshar, Y.,; Librant, Pesel,; Linkov, Grigory,; Lorber, Dov,; Melnik, Y.Y.,; Mirochnik, Asher,; Nusan Porter, Jack,; Orland, H.,; Oškalns, Otomārs,; Persov, Shmuel,; Pismenny, A.,; Puchtik, Abraham,; Puchtik, Yisroel,; Rabinovitz, Zev,; Salai, M.G.,; Savich, O.,; Singer, L.,; Stonov, D.,; Verba, Tzvi,; Vershigora, Pavlo,; Yellin, M.,; Zafran, Shmaryahu,; Zbanatsky, Yu.,
• HerausgeberIn: Merin, Yehuda,; Porter, Jack Nusan,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (662 p.)

Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union during World War II compiled by Jack Nusan Porter with the assistance of Yehuda Merin, is a classic compilation of original Russian and Jewish sources on the anti-Nazi resistance in Eastern Europe. After thirty years, Dr. Porter has compressed two volumes into one, added a new preface, an updated bibliography and filmography, over 100 new photos plus 12 new maps. This new volume is essential for scholars, teachers, and students of the Shoah, Russian history, and World War II.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- BOOK ONE -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Combined Volume -- Preface to 1st Edition -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Introduction to the Original 1948 Russian Edition -- Introduction: Jewish Resistance in the Soviet Union -- Part One Prologue -- The Partisan Tales of Shmuel Persov -- A. “Your Name – A People” -- B. Herschel, The Oven Builder -- C. Forty-Two -- D. Reisel and Hannah -- Remember! -- The Partisan Mine and Abraham Hirschfeld, the Watchmaker -- Part Two Initiatives -- The Partisan Oath -- The Partisan Oath -- Friendship -- Without Fire… -- Partisan Friendship -- The Avengers of the Minsk Ghetto -- Part Three Partisan Society -- In the Forests of Bryansk -- Meetings and Events -- A Civilian Camp in the Forest -- Partisan Alexander Abugov -- The Partisan Filmmaker -- Women Spies -- Part Four Partisan Warfare -- David Keimach -- The Partisans of the Kaunas Ghetto -- Talking of Friends -- They Were Many -- In the Tunnels of Odessa -- Sonya Gutina -- The Davidovich Family -- Part Five Epilogue -- Soviet Jews during and after the War of the Fatherland -- Our Place -- BOOK TWO -- Preface -- The Ten Commandments of the Holocaust -- Part one Jewish Partisans in the Soviet Union: Latvia, Ukraine, and Byelorussia 1941-1944 -- The Kovpak Men -- My Comrades in Arms -- In the Struggle for Soviet Latvia -- In White Russia -- Three Fighters of My Unit -- Victor Spotman -- Typical Biographies -- Two Partisans -- Commissar Naum Feldman -- The Lermontov Company -- The Commander of the Boevoi Unit -- Editor’s Notes -- Part Two Jewish Partisans in Volyn and Polesia, Ukraine 1941-1944 -- In the Family Camp under Max’s Command -- A Partisan’s Testimony -- Stages in the Organization of the Partisan Fighting -- In the Forest with Grandfather -- A Town in the Woods -- The First Days in the Woods -- Exemplary Fighters -- The Heroic Death of Two Young Friends -- Deeds of a Child -- I Decided to Defend My Life -- A Commander Practices What He Preaches -- A Hungry Boy -- From a Partisan’s Notebook -- My Life Under the Ukrainian-German Occupation -- At Their Death They Ordered Us to Take Revenge -- About Kruk — The Secret Is Out -- The First Action: Mahmed-Melamed’s Character -- Interviews with Jewish Partisans -- Editor’s Notes -- Appendix -- Additional Copyright Information -- Introduction Footnotes -- Book One Footnotes -- Sources -- Annotated Bibliography on Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust -- Book II Annotated Bibliography -- New Books and Sources on Jewish Partisans and Resistance -- Glossary -- Photos, Maps, & Charts -- Index of Partisan Names & Groups