Archiv für April 2012

On the Other Side of the River: Dr. Adolph Herschmann and the Zhmerinka Ghetto, 1941-1944

This article examines the history of the Zhmerinka ghetto in Transnistria and the fate of Jewish Council member Dr. Adolph Herschmann, who served as head of the ghetto from early 1943 through the end of the Romanian occupation in spring 1944. The arti…

The Khatyn Massacre in Belorussia: A Historical Controversy Revisited

The brutal March 1943 massacre in the Belorussian village of Khatyn, commemorated in a 1969 memorial, has come to symbolize the horrors of the German occupation. Given the continuing centrality of the massacre to Belarusian memory politics, the detail…

Editorial Note

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Toward a Central Database of Evacuated Soviet Jews‘ Names, for the Study of the Holocaust in the Occupied Soviet Territories

Previously unknown data from central Russian archives show that Soviet, post-Soviet, and Western historians have substantially overestimated the number of Soviet citizens evacuated in 1941 and 1942. This research note advocates a central database of e…

Evacuation Documentation and Testimonies as Sources for the Study of Soviet Jewish Population Losses during World War II

The number of people evacuated from western Soviet territories ahead of the German advance in 1941–1942 has yet to be definitively established. In particular, these figures could shed light on Soviet Jewish population losses during the war. The …

Stalin’s Great Power Politics, the Return of Jewish Refugees to Poland, and Continued Migration to Palestine, 1944-1946

Under treaties of 1944 and 1945 the USSR permitted the departure of hundreds of thousands of Polish citizens, many of them Jews, who had found themselves on Soviet territory after the annexation of eastern Poland or who had fled there subsequently. In…

The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos During the Holocaust, Dan Michman (New York Cambridge University Press, 2011), viii + 191 pp., hardcover, $89.00

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Volume 62 Issue 01

The Classical Review, Volume 62 Issue 01 The Classical Review publishes informative reviews from leading scholars on new work covering the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Publishing over 150 high quality reviews and …

Volume 66 Issue 260

Tempo, Volume 66 Issue 260 Tempo is the premier English-language journal devoted to twentieth-century and contemporary concert music. Literate and scholarly articles, often illustrated with music examples, explore many aspects of the work of com…

Volume 59 Issue 01

Greece Rome, Volume 59 Issue 01 Greece Rome is a journal which delivers scholarly research to a wider audience. It showcases original and informative articles on ancient history, literature, art, archaeology, religion, philosophy, and receptio…