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A People’s Biography: Ada El’evna Raichonak and Her Hermanavichy
A People’s Biography: Ada El’evna Raichonak and Her Hermanavichy

Author(s): Anika Walke
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Jewish studies, Media studies, General Reference Works, Communication studies, Sociology, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, History of Judaism, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of the Holocaust, Migration Studies, Source Material
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: Belarus; Hermanavichy; Jewish history; Holocaust; biography;

Summary/Abstract: The article advances an approach to studying 20th century Jewish experience in the former Pale of Jewish Settlement that foregrounds individual biographies and places them in a larger cultural and historical context. Drawing on interviews and various other sources, this approach reveals, among others, how individuals challenge familiar categories of identification and thereby appeal to flexible research agendas.

  • Issue Year: 14/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 123-144
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English