David Shneer . Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust . (Jewish Cultures of the World.) New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 2011. Pp. xiii, 283. $39.95.
Journal: The American Historical Review
Year: 2011

David Shneer's book evoked in my memory a photo portrait of Joseph Stalin and Klimenti Voroshilov that hung on the wall of my Soviet kindergarten. It seems that visual presentations of all kinds served the Soviet regime quite well, particularly under Stalin. Soviet photojournalism during World War II mobilized wide public support in Russia's fateful struggle against Nazi Germany. According to some estimates, close to fifty percent of Soviet war photographers were Jews. Shneer tells the story of