TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mann, Mendl
AU  - Wolfthal, Maurice
AB  - "Mendl Mann’s autobiographical novel The Fall of Berlin tells the painful yet compelling story of life as a Jewish soldier in the Red Army. Menakhem Isaacovich is a Polish Jew who, after fleeing the Nazis, finds refuge in the USSR. Translated into English from the original Yiddish by Maurice Wolfthal, the narrative follows Menakhem as he fights on the front line in Stalin’s Red Army against Hitler and the Nazis who are destroying his homeland of Poland and exterminating the Jews.     Menakhem encounters anti-Semitism on various occasions throughout the novel, and struggles to comprehend how seemingly normal people could hold such appalling views. As Mann writes, it is odd that ""vicious, insidious anti-Semitism could reside in a person with elevated feelings, an average person, a decent person”. The Fall of Berlin is both a striking and timelylook at the struggle that many Jewish soldiers faced.    An affecting and unique book, which eloquently explores a variety of themes – such as anti-Semitism, patriotism, Stalinism and life as a Jewish soldier in the Second World War – this is essential reading for anyone interested in the Yiddish language, Jewish history, and the history of World War II. "
DO  - 10.11647/OBP.0233
KW  - autobiography
KW  - fiction
KW  - Jewish
KW  - Red Army
KW  - Poland
KW  - Nazis
KW  - USSR
KW  - Yiddish
KW  - anti-semitism
KW  - Berlin
KW  - patriotism
KW  - stalinism
KW  - second world war
KW  - Jewish history
KW  - World War II
KW  - Yiddish language
KW  - Eastern Europe
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/af4d4d18-f940-4536-883e-a4f8b20a7d5a/9781800640795.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43646
PB  - Open Book Publishers
PY  - 2020
TI  - The Fall of Berlinnull
ER  - 
