I saw it: Ilya Selvinsky and the legacy of bearing witness to the Shoah.
TitleI saw it: Ilya Selvinsky and the legacy of bearing witness to the Shoah.
Author
Call number940.53180947/0005
Object number04926
Place of publicationBoston, Massachusetts, United States
PublisherAcademic Studies Press
Year of publication
2011
Physical descriptionxx,326p.,index,bibliography
MaterialBook
Series titleStudies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history
ISBN9781618113078
Description
Shrayer introduces the work of Ilya Selvinsky, the first Jewish-Russian poet to depict the Holocaust. In January 1942, while serving as a military journalist, Selvinsky witnessed the immediate aftermath of the massacre of thousands of Jews outside the Crimean city of Kerch, and thereafter composed and published poems about it.