I Saw It: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah

by Maxim D. Shrayer

Book Overview

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 depict the Holocaust (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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1618113070
• ISBN13: 9781618113078
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"