Chapter 5. How the Jewish Intelligentsia Created the Jewishness of the Jewish Hero: The Soviet Yiddish Press
Journal: Academic Studies Press eBooks
Year: 2019

In June 1943, Eynikayt, the Yiddish newspaper of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC), referred to Major Tsezar Kunnikov, a fallen commander of a marine unit, as a "Jewish hero" (yidish held). It was the expression of the views of the Soviet Jewish intelligentsia and in full accord with the practices allowed by the Soviet regime. The preceding years had already seen articles that dealt with various aspects of the ethnic identity of Jews in the Red Army during the Second World War.