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The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism 1st Edition

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  • Hardcover: 376 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (July 28, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0520242424
  • ISBN-13: 978-0520242425
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA treasure chest for Holywood
By Stan Nadel on April 7, 2010
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I just read this book and recommend it highly. While it could have used some better editing it tells a bunch of stories that could be the basis for a series of great movies like Defiance. The Amazon product description makes the point about the books exploration of the distinctiveness of the Minsk experience, where a history of relatively low levels of Antisemitism in Belarussia (low for Eastern Europe that is) was reinforced by an egalitarian and overtly anti-Antisemitic Soviet ideology to create the basis for a multi-ethnic resistance movement with broad support from the population as a whole and active support for Jews by ordinary Belarusians and the Belarussian partisan movement which had Jews in its leadership, Jews in its fighting organizations and Jewish fighting units. Some 10,000 Jews were therefore able to escape from the Minsk Ghetto and join the Partisans. Epstein points out the sharp contrast between the situation in Belarussia and those in Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine where Jews found little outside support and sometimes great hostility. She provides overwhelming evidence for her thesis. She also follow up on the wartime resistance story with the postwar denigration of the Minsk resistance and the persecution of its leaders by a Belarussian Communist Party leadership that wanted to cover up the fact that they had fled from the Germans and made no preparations for the creation of an underground resistance. The resistance was only honored at the end of the 1950s after the deStalinization campaign and only then were some of its leaders released from the Gulag. All in all an inspiring and sobering tale.

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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book
By Charles S. Fisher on January 4, 2012
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This book is in a league with Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin which it precedes. The author has given us insight into events in Eastern Europe during WWII which are hardly known and which transform the way we can think about the "Holocaust" and how it is used to justify ongoing oppression.

Count Leo Tolstoy viewed history through the eyes of ordinary people. There would have been no Napoleonic invasion of Russia had not French farmer's sons followed the General. The same ordinary people in Byelorussia joined together to resist Nazi occupation. Their cooperation contradicts the common understanding of the relationship of Jews in Nazi ghettos to their non-Jewish neighbors. The accepted reasoning goes that since Jews in the Diaspora could expect nothing but hostility from an anti-Semitic world, their only option has been martyred resistance. This view is crucial to the justification for Zionism, the establishment of the state of Israel, and arguments for Israeli treatment of Palestinians. For Jews survival depends on having their own state based the on motto "never again." Thus Jews have to protect Israel with the same determination that went into the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The argument continues that the Diaspora demonstrates that friends are, at best, unreliable allies and ultimately not trustworthy.

Ms. Epstein has spent much time in Belarus, doing interviews, wrestling with the required languages, and combing archives and personal memorabilia. Her research is impressive. What made White Russia so different from Poland, the Ukraine, and Lithuania?Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsMinsk Ghetto book
By D. Skinner on January 29, 2009
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Very interesting and well researched and written study of the Minsk Ghetto during WWII. Interesting to compare with the book by Tec on which the movie Defiance was based.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA well-researched book about the heroic efforts of Belarussian partisans ...
By Carolyn McCrady on April 4, 2015
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A well-researched book about the heroic efforts of Belarussian partisans and Communists who worked with the Jewish underground inside the Minsk Ghetto to bring thousands of people out of the hands of Nazis.
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