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Jews at War: Diaries from the Front

Ch. 3. P. 57–84.
Budnitskii O.

The essay, "Jews at War: Diaries from the Front", provides a glimpse of what the author calls "Private Abram's" war. These diaries reveal the soldiers' ordinary, daily existence of sleeping eating, and resting; occasionally the business of fighting turns into scenes of horrific violence. The author concludes that his subjects'Soviet identity was far more important to them than their Jewishness.

Language: English
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Keywords: JewsWarDiaries
Publication based on the results of:
Occupations and Liberations in Europe during World War II, 1939-1945 (2013)

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Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering
Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2014.
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