The ravine of memory : Babyn Yar between the Holocaust and the great patriotic war /

"The Nazis and their collaborators buried over 100,000 victims at Babyn Yar, a ravine in modern-day Ukraine. Most of the individuals were Jewish, making this area one of the most infamous mass murder sites in history. The Ravine of Memory starts when the travesty ends, telling the story of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pilnik, Shay A. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	West Lafayette : Purdue University Press, [2025]
Subjects:	Babi Yar Massacre, Ukraine, 1941. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities > Ukraine. Ukraine > History > German occupation, 1941-1944.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Babyn Yar unearthed
Early responses
The thaw and the memory of the Babyn Yar
The second thaw
Babyn Yar set to music
Documentary in content, fictional in form: Anatoly Kuznetsov
"Their memory is alive": babyn Yar on the Soviet Yiddish literary scene
"Let us go there by foot": Itsik Kipnis
A lullaby to Babyn Yar: Shike Driz
Between Marranos and Conversos: the next generation of Kyiv Yiddish writers
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author