Beyond the Pale - The Holocaust in the North Caucasus (Hardcover)

The first book devoted exclusively to the Holocaust in the North Caucasus, exploring mass killings, Jewish responses, collaboration, and memory in a region barely known in this context When war between the Soviet Union and Germany broke out in 1941, thousands of refugees - many of whom were Jews - poured from war-stricken Ukraine, Crimea, and other parts of Russia into the North Caucasus. Hoping to find safety, they came to a region the Soviets had struggled to pacify over the preceding 20 years of their rule. The Jewish refugees were in especially unfamiliar territory, as the North Caucasus had been mostly off-limits to Jews before the Soviets arrived, and most local Jewish communities were thus small. The region was not known as a hotbed of traditional antisemitism. Nevertheless, after occupying the North Caucasus in the summer and autumn of 1942, the Germans exterminated all the Jews they found - at least 30,000 - aided by local collaborators. While scholars have focused on local collaboration during the German occupation and on the subsequent Soviet deportations of entire North Caucasian ethnic groups, the region has largely escaped the attention of Holocaust researchers. This volume, the first book-length study devoted exclusively to the Holocaust in the North Caucasus, addresses that gap. Contributors present richly documented essays on such topics as German killing operations, decision-making by Jewish refugees, local collaboration, rescue, and memory, taking care to integrate their findings into the broader contexts of Holocaust, North Caucasian, Russian, and Soviet history.

General

Imprint:	University of Rochester Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe
Release date:	October 2020
First published:	2020
Editors:	Crispin Brooks (Author) • Kiril Feferman
Contributors:	Crispin Brooks (Author) • Kiril Feferman • Georgi Derluguian (Contributor) • Andrej Angrick • Stephen Tyas • Andrej Umansky • William Youmans • Sufian Zhemukhov
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	319
ISBN-13:	978-1-64825-003-3
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-64825-003-3
Barcode:	9781648250033

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