Title Jewish lives under communism : new perspectives / edited by Kateřina Capková and Kamil Kijek

Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction / Kateřina Čapková, Kamil Kijek, and Stephan Stach -- Part I: Periphery and Center -- 1. A New Life? The Pre-Holocaust Past and Post-Holocaust Present in the Life of the Jewish Community of Dzierzoniów, Lower Silesia, 1945-1950 / Kamil Kijek -- 2. Erased from History: Jewish Migrants in Postwar Czechoslovakia / Kateřina Čapková -- 3. On the Borders of Legality: Connections between Traditional Culture and the Informal Economy in Jewish Life in the Soviet Provinces / Valery Dymshits -- Part II: Perceptions of Jewishness -- 4. From Friends to Enemies? The Soviet State and Its Jews in the Aftermath of the Holocaust / Diana Dumitru -- 5. "I Was Not Like Everybody Else": Soviet Jewish Doctors Remember the Doctors' Plot / Anna Shternshis -- 6. "After Auschwitz You Must Take Your Origins Seriously": Perceptions of Jewishness among Communists of Jewish Origin in the Early German Democratic Republic / Anna Koch -- 7. Being Jewish in Soviet Birobidzhan: Between Stigma and Cynicism / Agata Maksimowska -- Part III: Transnationalism -- 8. An Alternative World: Jews in the German Democratic Republic, Their Transnational Networks, and a Global Jewish Communist Community / David Shneer -- 9. Soviet Yiddish Cultural Diplomacy in the Post-Stalinist 1950s / Gennady Estraikh -- 10. Family Discourse, Migration, and Nation-Building in Poland and Israel in the Late 1950s / Marcos Silber -- Part IV: Dissidents -- 11. Three Jewish Social Networks: A (Non-) Encounter in Malakhovka / Galina Zelenina -- 12. The Opposition of the Opposition: New Jewish Identities in the Illegal Underground Public Sphere in Late Communist Hungary / Kata Bohus -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index Summary This volume provides new, groundbreaking views of Jewish life in various countries of the pro-Soviet bloc from the end of the Second World War until the collapse of Communism in late 1989. The authors, twelve leading historians and anthropologists from Europe, Israel and the United States, look at the experience of Jews under Communism by digging beyond formal state policy and instead examining the ways in which Jews creatively seized opportunities to develop and express their identities, religious and secular, even under great duress. The volume shifts the focus from Jews being objects of Communist state policy (and from anti-Jewish prejudices in Communist societies) to the agency of Jews and their creativity in Communist Europe after the Holocaust. The examination of Jewish history from a transnational vantage point challenges a dominant strand in history writing today, by showing instead the wide variety of Jewish experiences in law, traditions and institutional frameworks as conceived from one Communist country to another and even within a single country, such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, and the Soviet Union. By focusing on networks across east-central Europe and beyond and on the forms of identity open to Jews in this important period, the volume begins a crucial rethinking of social and cultural life under Communist regimes Analysis Judaism, Jews, Jewish people, Communism, Socialism, Jewish studies, sociology, Soviet bloc, USSR, Soviet Union, Cold War, Europe: Israel, Holocaust, state policy, religion, American, United States, USA, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Eastern European, Central Europe, regimes, government, secular, secularism, identity, Jewish identity, history, Hungary, East Germany, Germany Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources Subject Jews -- Communist countries -- Social conditions Jews -- Communist countries -- Social life and customs Jews -- Identity. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. Ethnic relations Jews -- Identity Jews -- Social conditions Jews -- Social life and customs SUBJECT Communist countries -- Ethnic relations Subject Communist countries Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book Author Čapková, Kateřina, editor Kijek, Kamil, editor Stach, Stephan Dymshits, Valery Dumitru, Diana Shternshis, Anna Koch, Anna Maksimowska, Agata Shneer, David Estraikh, Gennady LC no. 2021045869 ISBN 1978830823 9781978830820

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