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The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War

The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War

Pilnik, Shay A.

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Literary CriticismJudaismHolocaust

ISBN10: 1626710929
ISBN13: 9781626710924
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: Mar 15 2025
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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