Chapter 4. Jews as Cossacks: A Symbiosis in Literature and Life

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 6
4. Preface 7
5. Part 1: Histories
6. Chapter 1. Jewish Combatants of the Red Army Confront the Holocaust 16
7. Chapter 2. Ilʹia Ehrenburg and the Holocaust in the Soviet Press 36
8. Chapter 3. Jews at War: Diaries from the Front 57
9. Chapter 4. Jews as Cossacks: A Symbiosis in Literature and Life 85
10. Chapter 5. How the Jewish Intelligentsia Created the Jewishness of the Jewish Hero: The Soviet Yiddish Press 104
11. Part II: Representation, Documentation, and Interpretation
12. Chapter 6. Foreshadowing the Holocaust: Boris Slutskii’s Jewish Poetic Cycle of 1940/41 130
13. Chapter 7. Poetry After Kerch': Representing Jewish Mass Death in the Soviet Union 151
14. Chapter 8. Between the Permitted and the Forbidden: The Politics of Holocaust Representation in The Unvanquished (1945) 168
15. Chapter 9. From Photojournalist to Memory Maker: Evgenii Khaldei and Soviet Jewish Photographers 187
16. Chapter 10. Memoirs 208
17. Chapter 11. Afterword Soviet Jews in World War II: Experience, Perception and Interpretation 251
18. Index 264