Through Soviet Jewish eyes; photography, war and the Holocaust
TitleThrough Soviet Jewish eyes; photography, war and the Holocaust
Author
Call number770.947/0001
Object number08116
Place of publicationNew Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
PublisherRutgers University Press
Year of publication
2012
Physical descriptionxii, 283p., index
MaterialBook
Series titleJewish cultures of the world
ISBN9780813553931
Description
Focuses on an elite group of two dozen Soviet-Jewish photographers, including Arkady Shaykhet, Alexander Grinberg, Mark Markov-Grinberg, Evgenii Khaldei, Dmitrii Baltermants, and Max Alpert.These artists participated in a social project they believed in and with which they were emotionally and intellectually invested-they were charged by the Stalinist state to tell the visual story of the Holocaust.