Author:
Shneer, David, 1972-
Imprint:New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.
Descriptionxiii, 283 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Note:How a group of Jews from the provinces built Soviet photojournalism -- Seeing red: Jewish photographers, the rise of the second generation, and Soviet photojournalism of the 1930s -- Soviet Jews on both sides of the camera: the photographs of Jewish agricultural colonies and Birobidzhan -- "Without the newspaper, we are defenseless!": photojournalists and the war -- Picturing grief, documenting crimes: Soviet Holocaust photography -- When Jews talked to Jews: wartime Soviet Yiddish culture and Soviet photographers' Jewishness -- From photojournalism to icons of war and the Holocaust: photographs and photographers after the War -- Epilogue : Soviet Jewish photographers as war heroes.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
