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Shimon Redlich

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Shimon Redlich

Shimon Redlich[a] (born 1935)[1] is an Israeli historian who survived the Holocaust. Redlich is a professor emeritus at Ben Gurion University. He is an expert in the modern history of Jews in Eastern Europe.[2]

Shimon 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.[3] Redlich is one of the child survivors starring in the 1948 film Unzere kinder.[2]

In 1950, he emigrated to Israel. He earned a BA at Hebrew University, an MA from Harvard University, and a PhD from New York University. In 1972, he began teaching at Ben Gurion University, and retired as full professor in 2003.[2]

  • Redlich, Shimon, ed. (1995). War, Holocaust and Stalinism: A Documented Study of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the USSR. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-3-7186-5739-1.[4][5]
  • Redlich, Shimon (2002). Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34074-0.[6][7]
  • Redlich, Shimon (2011). Life in transit: Jews in postwar Lodz, 1945-1950. Academic Studies Press. ISBN 978-965-536-085-1.[8][9]
  • Redlich, Shimon (2018). A New Life in Israel: 1950-1954. Academic Studies Press. ISBN 978-1-61811-715-1.
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Footnotes

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  1. Hebrew: שמעון רדליך

References

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  1. "Redlich, Shimon 1935-". Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 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. Retrieved December 21, 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.
    • 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.
    • "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. June 2003. doi:10.1086/ahr/108.3.940.
    • Weeks, Theodore R (2002). "Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 44 (3/4): 347–348.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.