From photojournalist to memory maker: Evgenii Khaldei and Soviet Jewish photographers
TitleFrom photojournalist to memory maker: Evgenii Khaldei and Soviet Jewish photographers
Author
Call number947.084004924/0015
Object number09060i
Place of publicationBoston, Massachusetts, United States
PublisherAcademic Studies Press
Year of publication
2014
Physical descriptionpp187-207
MaterialArticle
Series titleBorderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies
ISBN9781618113139
NotesArticle from the book 'Soviet Jews in World War II: fighting, witnessing, remembering.' pp187-207
Description
Khaldei was well-known for his photograph capturing the Soviet entry into Berlin. However he also took photographs of Nazi atrocities committed against Jews, some of which did not subscribe to the Soviet policy of universal suffering. It is the afterlife of Khaldei's explicitly Jewish photographs that is at the heart of the story Shneer tells