Language:
Yiddish
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
סאוועטיש היימלאנד
Angaben zur Quelle:
12 (1990) 48-53
Keywords:
ארנבורג, איליה; גרוסמן, וסילי (עורכים)
;
הוועד היהודי האנטי-פאשיסטי הסובייטי
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
The "Black Book" is a compilation of eyewitness testimonies, letters, and diaries relating to the murder of Soviet Jews during World War II. It was begun in 1943 as a joint project of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and the Committee of Jewish Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals established in the U.S. Ilya Ehrenburg was the editor-in-chief, with some 40 workers collecting material (many of them famous Jewish writers). When the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, in 1945, sent some of the material (mostly in Yiddish) to the U.S. without telling Ehrenburg, he resigned as editor and Vasily Grossman took up the post. The English translation appeared in 1946 and was used as evidence in the Nuremberg Trials. The Russian edition did not appear in the USSR due to the liquidation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee; an incomplete version was published in Israel (in Hebrew) in 1980. A Romanian edition appeared in 1956, a new English translation of the Hebrew version appeared in 1981, and a Yiddish edition (with the heretofore lost section on Lithuania added) appeared in the U.S. in 1984.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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