How The Soviet Jew Was Made
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How The Soviet Jew Was Made
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Author : Sasha Senderovich
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-05
How The Soviet Jew Was Made written by Sasha Senderovich and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
A close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity. The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the Jewish community of the former tsarist empire. The Pale of Settlement on the empire's western borderlands, where Jews had been required to live, was abolished several months before the Bolsheviks came to power. Many Jews quickly exited the shtetls, seeking prospects elsewhere. Some left for bigger cities, others for Europe, America, or Palestine. Thousands tried their luck in the newly established Jewish Autonomous Region in the Far East, where urban merchants would become tillers of the soil. For these Jews, Soviet modernity meant freedom, the possibility of the new, and the pressure to discard old ways of life. This ambivalence was embodied in the Soviet Jew—not just a descriptive demographic term but a novel cultural figure. In insightful readings of Yiddish and Russian literature, films, and reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds characters traversing space and history and carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost Jewish world. There is the Siberian settler of Viktor Fink’s Jews in the Taiga, the folkloric trickster of Isaac Babel, and the fragmented, bickering family of Moyshe Kulbak’s The Zelmenyaners, whose insular lives are disrupted by the march of technological, political, and social change. There is the collector of ethnographic tidbits, the pogrom survivor, the émigré who repatriates to the USSR. Senderovich urges us to see the Soviet Jew anew, as not only a minority but also a particular kind of liminal being. How the Soviet Jew Was Made emerges as a profound meditation on culture and identity in a shifting landscape.
The Jews Of The Soviet Union
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Author : Benjamin Pinkus
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1988
The Jews Of The Soviet Union written by Benjamin Pinkus and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Jews categories.
This is a comprehensive and topical history of the Jews in the Soviet Union and is based on firsthand documentary evidence and the application of a pioneering research method into the fate of national minorities. Within a four-part chronological framework, Professor Pinkus examines not only the legal-political status of the Jews, and their reciprocal relationship with the Soviet majority, but also the impact of internal economic, demographic and social processes upon the religious, educational and cultural life of Soviet Jewry. A second layer of analysis describes in depth the complex linkages between the Jews of the Soviet Union, the Jews in other diasporas and the state of Israel itself. The Jews of the Soviet Union marks a major contribution to the historiography and social analysis of its subject and provides a worthy companion to Professor Pinkus's acclaimed documentary study The Soviet Union and the Jews 1948-1967.
The Jews In The Soviet Union Since 1917
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Author : Nora Levin
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1988
The Jews In The Soviet Union Since 1917 written by Nora Levin and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Jews categories.
The Jews Of Silence
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Author : Elie Wiesel
language : en
Publisher: Schocken
Release Date : 2011-08-16
The Jews Of Silence written by Elie Wiesel and has been published by Schocken this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-16 with History categories.
In the fall of 1965 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent a young journalist named Elie Wiesel to the Soviet Union to report on the lives of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. “I would approach Jews who had never been placed in the Soviet show window by Soviet authorities,” wrote Wiesel. “They alone, in their anonymity, could describe the conditions under which they live; they alone could tell whether the reports I had heard were true or false—and whether their children and their grandchildren, despite everything, still wish to remain Jews. From them I would learn what we must do to help . . . or if they want our help at all.” What he discovered astonished him: Jewish men and women, young and old, in Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad, Vilna, Minsk, and Tbilisi, completely cut off from the outside world, overcoming their fear of the ever-present KGB to ask Wiesel about the lives of Jews in America, in Western Europe, and, most of all, in Israel. They have scant knowledge of Jewish history or current events; they celebrate Jewish holidays at considerable risk and with only the vaguest ideas of what these days commemorate. “Most of them come [to synagogue] not to pray,” Wiesel writes, “but out of a desire to identify with the Jewish people—about whom they know next to nothing.” Wiesel promises to bring the stories of these people to the outside world. And in the home of one dissident, he is given a gift—a Russian-language translation of Night, published illegally by the underground. “‘My God,’ I thought, ‘this man risked arrest and prison just to make my writing available to people here!’ I embraced him with tears in my eyes.”
Soviet Jewry In The Decisive Decade 1971 80
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Author : Robert Owen Freedman
language : en
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Release Date : 1984
Soviet Jewry In The Decisive Decade 1971 80 written by Robert Owen Freedman and has been published by Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
"The exodus of more than 250,000 Soviet Jews during the 1970s has opened a window for the authors of this volume to gain significant new insights into the essentially closed society and political decision-making process of the Soviet Union. Divided into two parts, the book first analyzes the nature and development of Soviet anti-Semitism as well as examining the effects of world pressure from 1971 to 1980 on the Soviet government's decision to allow Soviet Jews to emigrate. It then offers useful cross-cultural comparisons of the emigration experience, with a specific focus on Soviet-Jewish resettlement in Israel and the United States"--Page preceding title page.
The Jews In Soviet Russia Since 1917
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Author : Institute of Jewish Affairs
language : en
Publisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press for the Institute of Jewish Affairs
Release Date : 1972
The Jews In Soviet Russia Since 1917 written by Institute of Jewish Affairs and has been published by London ; New York : Oxford University Press for the Institute of Jewish Affairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with History categories.
The Jews In Soviet Russia Since 1917
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Author : Lionel Kochan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1978
The Jews In Soviet Russia Since 1917 written by Lionel Kochan and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
Historical analysis of the position and living conditions of Russian Jews in the USSR since 1917 - covers government policy of discrimination against the jewish minority group, demographic aspects and occupational structure, cultural factors and achievements in literature, legal status, religion, the problem of language, jewish emigration, the role of USSR and Russian foreign policy in Arab country and in Israel, etc. Bibliography after each chapter.
Revolution Repression And Revival
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Author : Zvi Y. Gitelman
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2007
Revolution Repression And Revival written by Zvi Y. Gitelman and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
In less than a century, Jews in Russia have survived two world wars, revolution, political and economic turmoil, and persecution by both Nazis and Soviets. Yet they have managed not only to survive, but also transform themselves and emerge as a highly creative, educated entity that has transplanted itself into other countries. Revolution, Repression and Revival: The Soviet Jewish Experience enhances our understanding of the Russian Jewish past by bringing together some of the latest thinking by the leading scholars from the former Soviet Union, Israel and the United States. The book explains the contradictions, ambiguities and anomalies of the Russian Jewish story and helps us understand one of the most complex and unsettled chapters in modern Jewish history. The Soviet Jewish story has had many fits and starts as it transfers from one chapter of Soviet history to another and eventually, from one country to another. Some believe that the chapter of Russian Jewry is coming to a close. Whatever the future of Russian Jewry may be, it has a rich, turbulent past. Revolution, Repression and Revival sheds new light on the past, illustrating the complexities of the present, and gives needed insights into the likely future.
Jews And Jewish Life In Russia And The Soviet Union
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Author : Yaacov Ro'i
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-11
Jews And Jewish Life In Russia And The Soviet Union written by Yaacov Ro'i and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-11 with History categories.
The main focus of this book is Jewish life under the Soviet regime. The themes of the book include: the attitude of the government to Jews, the fate of the Jewish religion and life in Post-World War II Russia. The volume also contains an assessment of the prospects for future emigration.
The Struggle For Soviet Jewish Emigration 1948 1967
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Author : Yaacov Ro'i
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-10-30
The Struggle For Soviet Jewish Emigration 1948 1967 written by Yaacov Ro'i and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-30 with History categories.
A 1991 study of the cultural, social, political and international context of the movement for Soviet Jewish emigration.