Gross, Jan T. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. New York, 2001

Jan Tomasz Gross is a professor of war and society at Princeton University where he teaches modern European history. In this book, The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne (2001) he presents a different kind of view of the holocaust, which places Jedwabne Poles at the center of events leading to the massacre of half the town’s Jews. He advocates for the Holocaust to be viewed as a heterogeneous phenomenon: that is, on the one hand as a system that “functioned according to a preconceived (though constantly evolving) ... Read more...

Meir, Natan M. “Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians in Kiev: Intergroup Relations in Late Imperial Associational Life.” Slavic Review, 65, 3(Fall 2006): 475-501.

Natan Meir’s article “Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians in Kiev: Intergroup Relations in Late Imperial Associational Life,” (2006) looks beneath the obviously tense Jewish and Non-Jewish relations in late 19^th century and early 20^th century Kiev.[1] The period which he deals with is, in the main, notable for its heightened interethnic tensions, state-sponsored segregation and sporadic violence ... Read more...

Braithwaite, Rodric. Moscow, 1941: A City and Its People at War. New York, 2006.

Sir Rodric Quentin Braithwaite book Moscow, 1941 (2006) is an engrossing and thoroughly enjoyable read.[1] It is written in a colorful and simple language and narrative style peppered with a myriad of stories by various people who experienced the German offensive on Moscow and other historic events like the Russian Civil War, directly or indirectly. It must be also said that the book is an ambitious one as it tries to not only incorporate a micro-perspective of the attack on Moscow from personal witnesses ... Read more...