Abstract
This chapter reviews several books on the experiences Jews before, during and after the Holocaust. The first few books look at life in occupied Soviet Union territories during World War II. The next book reviewed focuses on the experiences of Jews in Riga, Latvia and the reactions of the Jewish youth to the arrival of Soviet Union troops in Riga. The review that follows explores a book about the experiences of the Jews in the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. The next book reviewed presents essays on ambiguities of wartime victimization and postwar rehabilitation of the Jews in Europe during World War II. Another book presents essays that highlight the prewar dynamics of relationships between Jews and non-Jews. Other topics covered in books reviewed here include how the Soviet Union-promoted Jewish assimilation strengthened the ties between Jews and Byelorussians; Holocaust research; anti-Semitic stereotypes of Jews in Romania and other countries in Central Europe; and alleged Jewish overrepresentation in the Soviet apparatus in Estonia.