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 on...

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