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Author_Shay A. Pilnik
Babi Yar
Babyn Yar
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Cold War
comparative literature
dissent
dissidence
documentary novel
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ethnic cleansing
genocide
Holocaust commemoration
Holocaust in the Soviet Union
Holocaust literature
Jewish
Khrushchev's Thaw
Khrushchev’s Thaw
massacre sites
shetidesyatniki
Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony
Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony
Soviet Jewry
Soviet Yiddish culture
war crimes
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Product details
- ISBN 9781626710924
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2025
- Publisher: Purdue Scholarly Publishing Services
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 ravine's memory and forgetting in Soviet literature and culture—in Russian as well as in Yiddish. This book challenges the prevailing binary conceptions of Babyn Yar as exclusively a Holocaust or a "Great Patriotic War" story. It is neither the exclusive product of Soviet censorship nor individual dissidents. Babyn Yar is more than a physical space where untold horrors took place. Symbolically, it is the ultimate meeting point of so many disparate threads of Soviet culture: the state and the artist, the Jew and the non-Jew, and the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War. Ultimately, it is a place that reveals the frailty and courage of those who bear witness to atrocity.
Shay A. Pilnik is the director of the Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University in New York City. Formerly, Pilnik was the executive director of the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He holds a PhD in modern Jewish studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
