Jews in eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939-46 / edited by Norman Davies and Antony Polonsky.

Seven of the chapters were first presented at the International Conference on the History and Culture of Polish Jews held in Jerusalem in Feb. 1988.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Sovietisation of western Urkaine and western Byelorussia / Jan Tomasz Gross -- Some economic and social problems of the Jews of eastern Galicia in the period of Soviet rule (1939-41) / Aharon Weiss -- The Jews in Soviet-occupied eastern Poland at the end of 1939 : numbers and distribution / Maciej Siekierski -- Jewish issues in the Polish literature of exile in the USSR / Henryk Siewierski -- Sovietisation and the Jewish response to Nazi policies of mass murder / Ben-Cion Pinchuk -- Jewish resistance in small towns of eastern Poland / Shmuel Spector -- The welfare of Polish-Jewish refugees in the USSR, 1941-43 : relief supplies and their distribution / Keith Sword -- The Jewish issue in the Polish army in the USSR and the Near East, 1941-44 / Ryszard Terlecki -- The Polish government-in-exile and the Erlich-Alter affair / David Engel.

Jews in the Kościuszko Division and First Polish Army / Klemens Nussbaum -- The road to new Poland : Jewish communists in the Soviet Union, 1939-46 / Wlodzimierz Rozenbaum -- Polish-Jewish refugees repatriated from the Soviet Union to Poland at the end of the Second World War and afterwards / Yosef Litvak -- The 'Jewish Organising Committee' in Moscow and "The Jewish Central Committee' in Warsaw, June 1945-February 1946: tackling repatriation / Hanna Shlomi.