Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. When Photography Was Jewish
7. 1. How a Group of Jews from the Provinces Built Soviet Photojournalism 13
8. 2. Seeing Red: Jewish Photographers, the Rise of the Second Generation, and Soviet Photojournalism of the 1930s 31
9. 3. Soviet Jews on Both Sides of the Camera: The Photographs of Jewish Agricultural Colonies and Birobidzhan 60
10. Part Two. Soviet Jewish Photographers Confront World War II and the Holocaust
11. 4. “Without the Newspaper,We Are Defenseless!”: Photojournalists and the War 87
12. 5. Picturing Grief, Documenting Crimes: Soviet Holocaust Photography 140
13. 6. When Jews Talked to Jews:Wartime Soviet Yiddish Culture and Soviet Photographers’ Jewishness 184
14. 7. From Photojournalism to Icons of War and the Holocaust: Photographs and Photographers after the War 205
15. Epilogue. Soviet Jewish Photographers as War Heroes 233
16. Notes 237
17. Index 269