Survival on the margins : Polish Jewish refugees in the wartime Soviet Union /

Survival on the Margins tells the story of Polish Jewish flight into Soviet Ukraine and Belarus, deportation to the Urals and Siberia, amnesty to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and subsequent repatriation to Poland after the war. It looks at what it meant for central European shoemakers and homemakers to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Adler, Eliyana R. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Jews, Polish > Refugees > Soviet Union. World War, 1939-1945 > Refugees > Soviet Union. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Return migration > Poland > History > 20th century. HISTORY / World.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: On the other side
Esau or Laban? Wrestling with the German and Soviet occupations
If a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him: the Soviet embrace
Jewish luck: deportation to Siberia
City of want: survival in Central Asia
Nusekh Poyln or yetsies Poyln? the Polish way or exodus from Poland?
Conclusion: Expanding the compass of survival.