8 Hersh Smolar: A Polish Personage in the Soviet Jewish Cultural Scene, 1940s–1960s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Note on Translations, Transliterations, and Place Names vii
4. Foreword viii
5. Introduction xvii
6. Part One—History
7. 1 Who, When, and Why? Escaping German Occupation in 1939 versus 1941 2
8. 2 Children in Exile: Wartime Journeys of Polish Jewish Youth 30
9. 3 Together and Apart: Poles and Polish Jews in the War-Torn Soviet Union 57
10. 4 “I’m rushing with millions of others to the battlefield”—Jewish Soldiers in the Polish Army in the Soviet Union, 1943–1946 70
11. 5 Repatriation of Polish Catholics and Jews from Distant Parts of the Soviet Union in Polish-Soviet Relations (1944–1947) 110
12. 6 Polish Citizenship as a Way to Freedom: How Soviet Jews Escaped the USSR Using Polish Documents 130
13. 7 “The Deepest Self Denies the Face”: Polish Jewish Intellectuals and the Birth of the “Soviet Marrano” 143
14. 8 Hersh Smolar: A Polish Personage in the Soviet Jewish Cultural Scene, 1940s–1960s 175
15. Part Two—Memory
16. 9 Contested Memories: Soviet and Polish Jewish Refugees and Evacuees Recount Their Experience on the Soviet Home Front 200
17. 10 Neither “Victims” nor “Survivors”: Polish Jews Reflect on Their Wartime Experiences in the Soviet Union During the Second World War 214
18. 11 A Matzeva Amid Crosses: Jewish Exiles in the Polish Memory of Siberia 236
19. 12 Before, During, and After: The Objects and Archival Material in the POLIN Museum 261
20. EPILOGUE 279
21. Selected Bibliography 290
22. Acknowledgements 305
23. Note on Contributors 307
24. Index of Places 311
25. Index of Names 315