I Saw It - Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah (Paperback)

In this ground-breaking book, based on archival and -field research and previously unknown historical evidence, Maxim D. Shrayer introduces the work of Ilya Selvinsky, the - first Jewish-Russian poet to depict the Holocaust (Shoah) in the occupied Soviet territories. In January 1942, while serving as a military journalist, Selvinsky witnessed the immediate aftermath of the massacre of thousands of Jews outside the Crimean city of Kerch, and thereafter composed and published poems about it. Shrayer painstakingly reconstructs the details of the Nazi atrocities witnessed by Selvinsky, and shows that in 1943, as Stalin's regime increasingly refused to report the annihilation of Jews in the occupied territories, Selvinsky paid a high price for his writings and actions. This book features over 60 rare photographs and illustrations and includes translations of Selvinsky's principal Shoah poems.

General

Imprint:	Academic Studies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
Release date:	February 2014
First published:	April 2013
Authors:	Maxim D. Shrayer
Dimensions:	234 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	340
ISBN-13:	978-1-61811-307-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
LSN:	1-61811-307-0
Barcode:	9781618113078

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