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by Jack Nusan Porter (Editor), Yehuda Merin (Compiled by)
Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union is a classic compilation of original Russian and Jewish sources on the anti-Nazi resistance in Eastern Europe.
It is rooted in decades of research motivated by a desire to set the record straight on Jewish participation in resistance movements, a phenomenon often overlooked when not actively concealed.
As the son of Jewish partisans in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, Jack Porter presents here the result of his decades-long research: first-hand accounts and interviews with survivors and partisans, as well as some of their original work, and a seminal English translation of Partisan Brotherhood, a historical document gathered by Russian-Jewish intellectuals in 1948 at the height of anti-Semitic hysteria, written mainly by non-Jewish Soviet partisan commanders recounting the deeds of the Jewish fighters in their units.
Author Biography
Yehuda Merin was an administrator at the Tel Hashomer (Sheba) Hospital in Ramat Gan, Israel and a leader in the world-wide Volynhian Landsmanshaft, the World Union of Volynhian Jews in Israel and at Beit Volyn, their museum in Givatayim, Israel, a part of Yad Vashem. He died in 2010 at age 85.
