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Young Jewish Poets Who Fell as Soviet Soldiers in the Second World War

Lapidus, Rina

2014

Overview

This book deals with the work of fifteen young Jewish poets who were killed, died of wounds, or were executed in captivity while serving in the Red Army in the Second World War. All were young, all were poets, most were thoroughly assimilated into Soviet society whilst at the same time being rooted in Jewish culture and traditions. Their poetry, written mostly in Russian, Yiddish, and Ukrainian, was coloured by their backgrounds, by the literary and cultural climate that prevailed in the Soviet Union, and was deeply concerned with their expectation of impending death at the hands of the Nazis. The book examines the poets' backgrounds, their lives, their poetry and their deaths. Like the experiences and poetry of the British First World War poets, the lives and poems of these young Jewish poets are extremely interesting and deeply moving.

• Publisher: Routledge,Taylor and Francis,Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies / Death / Death in literature / Jewish authors / Jewish Studies / Russian poetry / Second World War / Soldiers' writings, Soviet / Ukrainian poetry / World War, 1939-1945 / Yiddish poetry
• ISBN: 9780415705592, 9781138573864, 0415705592, 1138573868