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9780742558175

Revolution, Repression, and Revival The Soviet Jewish Experience

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  • ISBN13:

    9780742558175

  • ISBN10:

    0742558177

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-11-06
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

Revolution, Repression and Revival The Experience of Jews in the Former Soviet Union 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.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
Introductionp. 1
Jews and the Soviet Regime: Encounters and Reactions
The "Jewish Battalions" in the Red Armyp. 15
Zionism in the Early Soviet State: Between Legality and Persecutionp. 37
Jewish Agricultural Settlement in the Interwar Period: A Balance Sheetp. 69
The Belorussian Shtetl in the 1920s and 1930sp. 91
The Jews of a Soviet Metropolis in the Interwar Period: The Case of Leningradp. 113
Social Trends among Jews in the Post-Stalin Yearsp. 131
Anti-Semitism in War and Peace
Jewish Refugees and Evacuees under Soviet Rule and German Occupation: The North Caucasusp. 155
The Genesis of Establishment Anti-Semitism in the USSR: The Black Years, 1948-1953p. 179
Attitudes toward Jews in Post-Soviet Russia and the Problem of Anti-Semitismp. 193
Reconstructing Jewish Communities in the USSR and its Successor States
The Jewish National Movement and the Struggle for Community in the Late Soviet Periodp. 221
The Problematics of Jewish Community Development in Contemporary Russiap. 239
Putin and the Jewish Oligarchs: Prejudice or Politics?p. 273
Post-Soviet Jewish Demography, 1989-2004p. 283
The Demography of Post-Soviet Jewry: Global and Local Contextsp. 313
The New Russian-Jewish Diaspora: Reception and Adaptation
The Russian Aliya in Israel: Community and Identity in the Second Decadep. 333
Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in the Israeli Population and Labor Forcep. 361
Looking into the Futurep. 379
Indexp. 389
About the Contributorsp. 403
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