Shimon Redlich Explained

Shimon Redlich (born 1935)^[1] is an Israeli historian and Holocaust survivor, professor emeritus at the Ben Gurion University, a specialist in the modern history of Jews in Eastern Europe, Russia and the USSR.

Biography

Shimon Redlich was born in Lviv in 1935. He and his family moved to Brzezany, located in what is now Ukraine, the same year. In 1943 his father was killed during a round-up, and the family went into hiding with the help of a Polish and a Ukrainian families. ^[2]

Redlich is one of the child survivors starring in the 1948 film Unzere kinder.^[3]

In 1950 he emigrated to Israel. He earned BA at Hebrew University, MA from Harvard University and PhD from New York University. In 1972 he began teaching at Ben Gurion University and retired as full professor in 2003.^[3]

Works

• Book: Redlich . Shimon . War, Holocaust and Stalinism: A Documented Study of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the USSR . 1995 . Psychology Press . 978-3-7186-5739-1 . en. ^{[4] [5]}
• Book: Redlich . Shimon . Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945 . 2002 . Indiana University Press . 978-0-253-34074-0 . en. ^{[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]}
• Book: Redlich . Shimon . Life in transit: Jews in postwar Lodz, 1945-1950 . 2011 . Academic Studies Press . 978-965-536-085-1 . ^{[14] [15]}
• Book: Redlich . Shimon . A New Life in Israel: 1950-1954 . 2018 . Academic Studies Press . 978-1-61811-715-1 . en.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Redlich, Shimon 1935-. 21 December 2020.
2. News: Coronavirus through the eyes of Holocaust survivors . 21 December 2020 . Haaretz.com . en.
3. https://holocaust.appstate.edu/node/409 Summer Symposium on the Holocaust Screens 1948 Film Unzere Kinder Followed by Discussion with Child Survivor and Cast Member Shimon Redlich live from Israel
4. Gitelman . Zvi . War, Holocaust and Stalinism: A Documented History of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the USSR. Ed. Shimon Redlich. Luxembourg: Harwood Academic, 1995. xxix, 504 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Hard bound. . Slavic Review . 1997 . 56 . 4 . 792–793 . 10.2307/2502146. 2502146 .
5. Klier . J. D. . Review of War, Holocaust and Stalinism: A Documented Study of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the USSR . The Slavonic and East European Review . 1997 . 75 . 4 . 754–756 . 4212528 .
6. Manekin . Rachel . Shimon Redlich. Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919–1945 . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xi, 202 pp.; Rosa Lehman. Symbiosis and Ambivalence: Poles and Jews in a Small Galician Town . New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. xxii, 217 pp. . AJS Review . 2004 . 28 . 2 . 406–409 . 10.1017/S0364009404430219.
7. Shimon Redlich. Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919–1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 202. $29.95 . The American Historical Review . June 2003 . 10.1086/ahr/108.3.940.
8. . Weeks . Theodore R . Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945 . Canadian Slavonic Papers . 44 . 3/4 . 2002 . 347–348 .
9. Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945Yekelchyk, Serhy. Journal of Ukrainian Studies; Toronto Vol. 30, Iss. 1, (Summer 2005): 139-141.
10. Rozenblit . Marsha L. . Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jeivs, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945. By Shimon Redlich. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xxii, 202 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Photographs. $29.95, hard bound. . Slavic Review . 2004 . 63 . 1 . 154–155 . 10.2307/1520284. 1520284 . 164920131 .
11. Dabrowski . Patrice . Shimon Redlich, Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919–1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002, xix, 202 pp. + maps, illustrations. . Nationalities Papers . 2003 . 31 . 3 . 359–361 . 10.1017/S0090599200021048. 189450983 .
12. Maurer . Trude . Review of Together and Apart in Brzezany. Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945 . Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas . 2004 . 52 . 2 . 299–301 . 41052772 .
13. Michlic . Joanna . Review of Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews and Ukrainians, 1919-1945 . The Slavonic and East European Review . 2004 . 82 . 3 . 770–773 . 4213984 .
14. Cole . T. . Life in Transit: Jews in Postwar Lodz, 1945-1950, Shimon Redlich (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2011), 282 pp., hardcover $45.00 . Holocaust and Genocide Studies . 2014 . 28 . 3 . 522–524 . 10.1093/hgs/dcu052.
15. Michlic . Joanna Beata . Life in Transit:Jews in Postwar Lodz, 1945-1950. By Shimon Redlich. Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2010. xvi, 264 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Maps. $45.00, hard bound. . Slavic Review . 2012 . 71 . 2 . 432–434 . 10.1017/S0037677900013802. 164932571 .