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The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism
Barbara Epstein
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Description for The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism
Hardback. Chronicles the history of a Communist-led resistance movement inside the Minsk ghetto, which, through its links to its Belarussian counterpart outside the ghetto and with help from others, enabled thousands of ghetto Jews to flee to the surrounding forests where they joined partisan units fighting the Germans. Num Pages: 376 pages, 23 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
Drawing from engrossing survivors' accounts, many never before published, "The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943" recounts a heroic yet little-known chapter in Holocaust history. In vivid and moving detail, Barbara Epstein chronicles the history of a Communist-led resistance movement inside the Minsk ghetto, which, through its links to its Belarussian counterpart outside the ghetto and with help from others, enabled thousands of ghetto Jews to flee to the surrounding forests where they joined partisan units fighting the Germans.Telling a story that stands in stark contrast to what transpired across much of Eastern Europe, where Jews found few reliable allies in the face ... Read more
Drawing from engrossing survivors' accounts, many never before published, "The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943" recounts a heroic yet little-known chapter in Holocaust history. In vivid and moving detail, Barbara Epstein chronicles the history of a Communist-led resistance movement inside the Minsk ghetto, which, through its links to its Belarussian counterpart outside the ghetto and with help from others, enabled thousands of ghetto Jews to flee to the surrounding forests where they joined partisan units fighting the Germans.Telling a story that stands in stark contrast to what transpired across much of Eastern Europe, where Jews found few reliable allies in the face ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520242425
SKU
V9780520242425
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About Barbara Epstein
Barbara Epstein is Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the Seventies and Eighties (UC Press) among other books.
Reviews for The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism
"Very clear and lively... Epstein's book constitutes an important contribution to the English scholarly literature on the topic."
Natalia Krasicka European Review Of History/Revue Europeenne D'histoire "Valuable [and] illuminating." The Jerusalem Report "Provides new insights with regard to the alliance between Jews and Communism."
Kiril Feferman Studies in Contemporary Jewry
Natalia Krasicka European Review Of History/Revue Europeenne D'histoire "Valuable [and] illuminating." The Jerusalem Report "Provides new insights with regard to the alliance between Jews and Communism."
Kiril Feferman Studies in Contemporary Jewry