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And you shall sleep restful nights" (St. Ephraim the Syrian).


Tuesday, November 2, 2010

The Holocaust in Ukraine

Indiana University Press, which specializes to some extent in Slavic realities, today tells me of a new paperback version just out:

Ray Brandon and Wendy Lower, eds., The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization (IUP, 2010), 392pp + maps + illustrations.


As the publisher notes, the Shoah in Ukraine has not been as well studied as in other areas. I remember reading a number of years ago the memoir of Kurt Lewin, A Journey Through Illusions, in which he recounts the role of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, primate of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church, in saving many Jews in Ukraine from deportation and death. But there is still much study to be done and many issues to be considered here.

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