2019/12/06 by Gennady Estraikh · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Ancient history #Biology #History #Jewish Identity and Society #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Paleontology #Symbiosis
paper · pdf · doi:10.1515/9781618116864-006
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An interpreter with the Field Marshal von Paulus's staff, Kogan exemplified a Jewish traitor. 3 In this climate, writers tended to show in their works both Jewish and non-Jewish Nazi collaborators. Thus, a balanced set of villains and heroes was one of the factors that made possible the publication of Anatolii Rybakov's Russian novel Heavy Sand; its Yiddish translation promptly appeared in Sovetish heymland (issues 4, 5 and 6, 1979). 4 In his novel The Time, Aron Vergelis, editor of Sovetish heymland, went so far as to describe a partnership among a Zionist agent, a Russian Nazi collaborationist, and the most publicized adventurer of Nazi Germany, Otto Skorzeny. 5 Jewish heroism, too, had to be balanced against non-Jewish heroism. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, leading Yiddish writers were accused, and some of them executed, for "spreading the notion" that the Jewish people "displayed supposedly exceptional heroism in the struggle against fascism. " 6 Soviet Yiddish writers and editors would not forget this lesson, though their positive characters, most notably Red Army soldiers and officers, always, even before the repression, appeared as convinced internationalists. This chapter focuses on the "friendship of Jews and Cossacks" as one of the directions of prewar propaganda campaigns and a recurring trope