Shimon Redlich

Shimon Redlich
שמעון רדליך
Portrait of Redlich, 2007
Born1935 (age 90–91)
Lwów, Lwów Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic
OccupationAcademic
TitleProfessor emeritus
SpouseYehudit
FatherShlomo
AwardsOrder of Merit
Academic background
EducationNYU
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
Modern history
InstitutionsBGU
Main interests
Jewish history in Eastern Europe
Military service
AllegianceIsrael
Branch
Israel Defense Forces
Service years
1954–1956

Shimon Redlich (Hebrew: שמעון רדליך; born 1935) 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

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.

Redlich is one of the child survivors starring in the 1946 film Unzere kinder.

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.

Works

Monographies

  • Redlich, Shimon (1982). Propaganda and Nationalism in Wartime Russia: the Jewish Antifascist Committee in the USSR, 1941-1948. East European Monographs. Vol. 108. East European Monographs.
  • Redlich, Shimon, ed. (1995). "Contents and Introduction" (PDF). War, Holocaust and Stalinism: A Documented Study of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the USSR. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-3-7186-5739-1.
  • Redlich, Shimon (2002). Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34074-0.
  • Redlich, Shimon (2011). Life in transit: Jews in postwar Lodz, 1945-1950. Academic Studies Press. ISBN 978-965-536-085-1.
  • Redlich, Shimon (2018). "Table of Contents and Preface" (PDF). A New Life in Israel: 1950-1954. Academic Studies Press. ISBN 978-1-61811-715-1.

Essays

  • Redlich, Shimon (1971). "The Jews in the Soviet Annexed Territories 1939-41". Soviet Jewish Affairs. 1 (1): 81–90. doi:10.1080/13501677108577082.
  • Redlich, Shimon (1971). "Jews in General Anders' Army in the Soviet Union 1941-42". Soviet Jewish Affairs. 1 (2): 90–98. doi:10.1080/13501677108577099.
  • Redlich, Shimon (1974). "Jewish Appeals in the USSR: An Expression of National Revival". Soviet Jewish Affairs. 4 (2): 24–37. doi:10.1080/13501677408577192.
  • Redlich, Shimon (1977). "Soviet uses of jewish nationalism during world war II: The membership and dynamics of the jewish antifascist committee in the USSR". Nationalities Papers. 5 (2): 136–166. doi:10.1080/00905997708407812.Redlich, Shimon (1979). "The Erlich-Alter Affair". Soviet Jewish Affairs. 9 (2): 24–45. doi:10.1080/13501677908577310.
  • Redlich, Shimon (1989). "The Jews in the Soviet Annexed Territories 1939-41". In Marrus, M. R. (ed.). The Nazi Holocaust - Historical Articles on the Destruction of European Jews: Bystanders to the Holocaust. Berlin: de Gryter. pp. 1009–1020. doi:10.1515/9783110968682.1009. ISBN 978-3-598-21564-3.
  • Redlich, Shimon (1990). "Metropolitan andrei sheptyts'kyi, Ukrainians and jews during and after the holocaust". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 5 (1): 39–51. doi:10.1093/hgs/5.1.39.
  • Redlich, Shimon (1992). "Discovering Soviet Archives: The Papers of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee". Jewish Quarterly Review. 39 (4): 15–19. doi:10.1080/0449010X.1992.10705883 (inactive 26 September 2025).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of September 2025 (link)

References

  1. ↑ "Redlich, Shimon 1935-". Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Summer Symposium on the Holocaust Screens 1948 Film Unzere Kinder Followed by Discussion with Child Survivor and Cast Member Shimon Redlich live from Israel
  3. ↑ "Coronavirus through the eyes of Holocaust survivors". Haaretz.com. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  4. ↑ Gitelman, Zvi (1997). "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. 56 (4): 792–793. doi:10.2307/2502146. JSTOR 2502146.
  5. ↑ Klier, J. D. (1997). "Review of War, Holocaust and Stalinism: A Documented Study of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the USSR". The Slavonic and East European Review. 75 (4): 754–756. JSTOR 4212528.
  6. ↑ Manekin, Rachel (2004). "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. 28 (2): 406–409. doi:10.1017/S0364009404430219.
  7. ↑ Wynot, Edward D. (June 2003). "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. 108 (3): 940–941. doi:10.1086/ahr/108.3.940.
  8. ↑ Weeks, Theodore R (2002). "Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 44 (3/4): 347–348. ProQuest 274534465.
  9. ↑ Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945 Yekelchyk, Serhy. Journal of Ukrainian Studies; Toronto Vol. 30, Iss. 1, (Summer 2005): 139-141.
  10. ↑ Rozenblit, Marsha L. (2004). "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. 63 (1): 154–155. doi:10.2307/1520284. JSTOR 1520284. S2CID 164920131.
  11. ↑ Dabrowski, Patrice (2003). "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. 31 (3): 359–361. doi:10.1017/S0090599200021048. S2CID 189450983.
  12. ↑ Maurer, Trude (2004). "Review of Together and Apart in Brzezany. Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945". Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. 52 (2): 299–301. JSTOR 41052772.
  13. ↑ Michlic, Joanna (2004). "Review of Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews and Ukrainians, 1919-1945". The Slavonic and East European Review. 82 (3): 770–773. doi:10.1353/see.2004.0060. JSTOR 4213984.
  14. ↑ Cole, T. (2014). "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. 28 (3): 522–524. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcu052.
  15. ↑ Michlic, Joanna Beata (2012). "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. 71 (2): 432–434. doi:10.1017/S0037677900013802. S2CID 164932571.