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Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union during World War II

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A classic compilation of original Russian and Jewish sources on the anti-Nazi resistance in Eastern Europe., including over 100 photographs and 12 maps. 
  • 15 June 2021
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Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union is a classic compilation of original Russian and Jewish sources on the anti-Nazi resistance in Eastern Europe. 

It is rooted in decades of research motivated by a desire to set the record straight on Jewish participation in resistance movements, a phenomenon often overlooked when not actively concealed. 

As the son of Jewish partisans in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, Jack Porter presents here the result of his decades-long research: first-hand accounts and interviews with survivors and partisans, as well as some of their original work, and a seminal English translation of Partisan Brotherhood, a historical document gathered by Russian-Jewish intellectuals in 1948 at the height of anti-Semitic hysteria, written mainly by non-Jewish Soviet partisan commanders recounting the deeds of the Jewish fighters in their units.

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Price: $29.95
Pages: 662
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Cherry Orchard Books
Publication Date: 15 June 2021
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781644694930
Format: Paperback
BISACs: Second World War, Judaism
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Jack Nusan Porter, born in Rovno, Ukraine in 1944, is a true child survivor of the Holocaust, having lost twenty five members of his family. His parents were leaders in the Kruk-Maks Otryad (Fighting Group) in Volynhia, Ukraine from 1942-1944. He is currently an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.


Yehuda Merin was an administrator at the Tel Hashomer (Sheba) Hospital in Ramat Gan, Israel and a leader in the world-wide Volynhian Landsmanshaft, the World Union of Volynhian Jews in Israel and at Beit Volyn, their museum in Givatayim, Israel, a part of Yad Vashem. He died in 2010 at age 85.