Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Complete black book of Russian Jewry The Complete black book of Russian Jewry Ilʹi͡a Ėrenburg,David Patterson,Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman "The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry is a collection of eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, affidavits, and other documents on the activities of the Nazis against Jews in the camps, ghetto… OL18480901W
The Soviet Jewish Americans The Soviet Jewish Americans Annelise Orleck xiv, 216 p. : 25 cm OL1897441W
Where the Jews aren't Where the Jews aren't Masha Gessen "The story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia as told through the strange history of the Soviet solution to the Jewish question. In 1929, the Soviet Union declared the area of Birobidzhan a home… OL20035524W
My life in Stalinist Russia My life in Stalinist Russia Mary M. Leder "In January 1931, Mary M. Leder, an American teenager, was attending high school in Santa Monica California. By year's end, she was living in a Moscow commune and working in a factory, thousands of m… OL222202W
The Endless Steppe The Endless Steppe Esther Rudomin Hautzig During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the f… OL270319W
Manya's story Manya's story Bettyanne Gray Manya Abramson and her family fight to survive the repeated pogroms and persecutions inflicted on the Jews in the Russian Ukraine in the years 1917-1921. OL3504884W
Upon the Head of the Goat Upon the Head of the Goat Aranka Siegal Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying … OL3958411W
The promised land The promised land Mary Antin A vivid, idealistic and inspiring autobiography of an emotional Russian child who came as an immigrant to the Boston slums and used all the opportunities possible in “the promised land.” — A.L.A. Ca… OL67378W
Passover Revisited Passover Revisited Andrew Harrison "Placed within the context of the Soviet Jewry movement, Passover Revisited: Philadelphia's Efforts to Aid Soviet Jews 1963-1998 argues that Philadelphia was the best organized and most effective Sov… OL6812773W
Girl with Two Landscapes Girl with Two Landscapes Lena Jedwab Rozenberg "In June, 1941, sixteen-year-old Lena Jedwab left Bialystok for summer camp in Russia - just when Germany invaded the Soviet Union.". "Stranded by war in a children's home in Russia, Lena agonized o… OL8626340W