Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13501674.2022.2030908
K. Moss
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13501674.2022.2076596
Yuliya V. Ladygina
ABSTRACT This article examines Akhtem Seitablaiev’s 2017 film, 87 Children, which depicts Stalin’s 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars through the prism of another genocide – the Nazis’ 1941–1943 murder of Crimean Jews. It uses Michael Rothberg’s theory of multidirectional memory to illustrate how the history of the Holocaust, Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars, and the personal story of the film’s protagonists conflate in Seitablaiev’s work in an attempt both to foreground silenced pasts and to comment on the pernicious instrumentalization of history in Putin’s Crimea. Seitablaiev makes an important contribution to the deconstruction of competition and hierarchies within traumatic histories of the peninsula, offering new forms of solidarity and new visions of justice – all of which are found in the specificities, overlaps, and echoes of different historical experiences that continue to shape current events in post-annexation Crimea.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13501674.2022.2048458
Jordan D. Finkin
ABSTRACT While not a central locale in modern Jewish poetry, Crimea nevertheless garnered the attention of several important poets in significant works. Their interest was galvanized at the intersection of their individual biographies and earlier classic literature on Crimea and the Black Sea. This article will focus on key works by the Hebrew poet Shaul Tshernikhovski and the Yiddish poet Perets Markish as writers in Jewish languages, and will then turn briefly to the work of a Jewish poet in a non-Jewish language, the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, with the goal of understanding the ways in which Crimea became a focal site for Jewish literary considerations of emplacement.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13501674.2022.2030912
V. Moskalets
This book explores the ideological origins and practical implementation of Ukrainian economic nationalism in interwar Poland and its influence on Poles and Jews. The author shows that the main activities of economic nationalism focused on competition in trade and commerce—namely, attempts to gain economic dominance in the cities and to acquire control over rural land. According to Dolhanov, economic nationalism was one of the main factors contributing to interethnic conflict in interwar Poland.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13501674.2022.2031028
Constance Pâris de Bollardière
Bibliographic data and brief summaries are provided for selected works of history and social science published in France (and in French) that place 19thand 20th-century East European Jews at the center of their analysis and/or are extensively based on sources produced by East European Jews. Bibliographic data (without summary) is offered for additional scholarly titles, along with a selection of introduced and/or annotated translated memoirs and sources, works of literary scholarship, exhibitions catalogs, and re-publications. This listing is based on the publishers’ descriptions of the books. Per year in alphabetical order (authors):
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13501674.2022.2088362
A. Glaser
ABSTRACT This article explores three Yiddish poets who placed Crimea at the center of a Jewish and proletarian world-building project. Khana Levin, Esther Shumiatsher, and Peretz Markish all published their work in the Kharkiv-based Yiddish journal Di royte velt (Red World) in the late 1920s and presented Crimea as a home for outsiders. The article begins with a discussion of Khana Levin’s Crimean Motifs. It next turns to Peretz Markish’s Brothers. The final case study is of Esther Shumiatsher. These three examples present Crimea as a site for Jewish writers to radically rethink what it meant to be an “Other” in Eastern Europe.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13501674.2022.2030907
Olga Linkiewicz
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13501674.2022.2030911
Agnieszka Wierzcholska
This short, well-written book is the first (!) published monograph in German about the so-called Operation Reinhardt, during which the Germans murdered some 1.8 million Jews in German-occupied Poland between 1942–1943. Lehnstaedt details the operation from the perspective of the perpetrators, showing the complex decision-making processes, structure, and implementation of the extermination. He also presents the viewpoint of the Jewish victims, citing extensively from Jewish survivors’ testimonies as well as offering an account of the postwar trials of the perpetrators and the place of the main extermination camps in the culture of memory.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13501674.2022.2076597
Golda Akhiezer
ABSTRACT In the 19th century, the Crimean Peninsula became a focus of attraction for educated elites of Polish Karaites, who lived in conditions of poverty and economic competition with Rabbanite Jews in their homeland. The image of Crimea in their eyes was that of a “land of milk and honey” and a prominent center of Torah knowledge. However, a collision with reality soon forced some of these “Ashkenazic” Karaite immigrants to change their perception. Influenced by the new political and cultural agenda of Russian ruling circles that attributed to the peninsula a special political, cultural, and symbolic dimension, they now presented Crimea as the cradle of the Russian Karaites. Contributing to this new perception was the Jewish Haskalah movement, which provided Karaite leaders with historical knowledge, as well as tools and methods, to support their ahistorical claims. These factors significantly contributed to transforming the Jewish Karaite community into a separate nation.
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