This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers journalists and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War as the period between June 22 1941 and May 9 1945 was known in the Soviet Union. The essays included here examine both newlydiscovered and previouslyneglected oral testimony poetry cinema diaries memoirs newspapers and archives. This is one of the first books to combine the study of Russian and Yiddish materials reflecting the nature of the Jewish AntiFascist Committee which for the first time during the Soviet period included both Yiddishlanguage and Russianlanguage writers. This volume will be of use to scholars teachers students and researchers working in Russian and Jewish history.