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This book deals with the work of fifteen young Jewish poets who were killed, died of wounds, or were executed in captivity while serving in the Red Army in the Second World War. All were young, all were poets, most were thoroughly assimilated into Soviet society whilst at the same time being rooted in Jewish culture and traditions. Their poetry, written mostly in Russian, Yiddish, and Ukrainian, was coloured by their backgrounds, by the literary and cultural climate that prevailed in the Soviet Union, and was deeply concerned with their expectation of impending death at the hands of the Nazis.

Ukrainian poetry --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Jewish authors --- Russian poetry --- Soldiers' writings, Soviet. --- Yiddish poetry --- Literature and the war. --- Yiddish literature --- Soviet soldiers' writings --- Soviet literature --- Russian literature --- Authors --- World War, 1939-1945, in literature --- Ukrainian literature

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"The book demonstrates how the Russian thought and literature of the 18th - 19th centuries influenced Jewish thought and Hebrew literature. Through a comparative analysis of an extensive corpus of writings by renowned Russian and Jewish thinkers, the book reveals how ideas regarding the need for a national awakening penetrated from Russian to Jewish thought. The Jewish thinkers who embraced these notions adapted them to the reality and experience of Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe. Likewise, portrayals of an individual's quest for the authentic and just God in Russian literary works gained purchase in ideological Hebrew literature, where the hero searches for a true path to achieve spiritual, social, and national well-being for the Jewish people. Absorption of ideological influences is a universal phenomenon that is instrumental to progress and cultural development, and it is accepted in Jewish culture as well"--

Jewish literature --- National characteristics in literature --- Jews --- Hebrew literature --- Ideology in literature --- Russian influences --- Intellectual life