I Saw It: Ilya Selvinsky's Poetry and the Legacy of Witnessing the Shoah   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2066438BP

  Author(s)

  Shrayer, Maxim

  City

  Brighton 

  Country

  United States 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9781618111692 

  Date of Publication

  2013 

  Publisher

  Academic Studies Press  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  - 

  Subject

  Literature

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Shrayer, Maxim

  Publisher

  Academic Studies Press  

• Description

  In this ground-breaking book, based on archival and field research and previously unknown historical evidence, Maxim D. Shrayer introduces the work of Ilya Selvinsky, the first Jewish-Russian poet to write publically about the Shoah in the occupied Soviet territories. In January 1942, while serving as a military journalist, Selvinsky witnessed the immediate aftermath of the massacre of thousands of Jews outside the Crimean city of Kerch, and thereafer composed numerous poetic works containing implicit or explicit references to the Shoah. Shrayer painstakingly reconstructs the details of the Nazi atrocities witnessed by Selvinsky, and shows that in 1943, as Stalin’s regime increasingly refused to report the annihilation of Jews in Soviet-occupied territories, Selvinsky paid a high price for his work. This book features over 60 rare photographs and illustrations and includes translations of Selvinsky’s principal Shoah poems.