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Through Soviet Jewish eyes : photography, war, and the Holocaust
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- Creator
- David Shneer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813550190, 9780813548845, 9781283864169, 081355019X, 0813548845, 1283864169
- OCLC
- on1129149885, ocn505017559, ocn768123450
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- How a group of Jews from the provinces built Soviet photojournalism -- Seeing red: Jewish photographers, the rise of the second generation, and Soviet photojournalism of the 1930s -- Soviet Jews on both sides of the camera: the photographs of Jewish agricultural colonies and Birobidzhan -- "Without the newspaper, we are defenseless!": photojournalists and the war -- Picturing grief, documenting crimes: Soviet Holocaust photography -- When Jews talked to Jews: wartime Soviet Yiddish culture and Soviet photographers' Jewishness -- From photojournalism to icons of war and the Holocaust: photographs and photographers after the War -- Epilogue : Soviet Jewish photographers as war heroes
Subjects
- Photographers -- Soviet Union -- History.
- Photographers -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
- Jewish photographers -- Soviet Union -- History.
- Jewish photographers -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
- Documentary photography -- Soviet Union -- History.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography.
- War photography -- Europe, Eastern.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe, Eastern -- Pictorial works.