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Author Bemporad, Elissa, author.

Title Becoming Soviet Jews : the Bolshevik experiment in Minsk / Elissa Bemporad
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations
Series Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies
Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies.
Contents Introduction -- Historical profile of an East European Jewish city -- Red star on the Jewish street -- Entangled loyalties : the Bund, the Evsekstiia, and the creation of a "new" Jewish political culture -- Soviet Minsk : the capital of Yiddish -- Behavior unbecoming a Communist : Jewish religious practice in a Soviet capital -- Housewives, mothers and workers : roles and representations of Jewish women in times of revolution -- Jewish ordinary life in the midst of extraordinary purges : 1934-1939 -- Conclusion
Summary Recasting existing conceptions of Soviet Jewish history, this book demonstrates that the often violent social changes enforced by the communist project did not destroy continuities with prerevolutionary forms of Jewish life in Minsk. Using Minsk as a case study of the Sovietization of Jews in the former Pale of Settlement, the author reveals the ways in which many Jews acculturated to Soviet society in the 1920s and 1930s while remaining committed to older patterns of Jewish identity, such as Yiddish culture and education, attachment to the traditions of the Jewish workers' Bund, circumcision, and kosher slaughter. This pioneering study also illuminates the reshaping of gender relations on the Jewish street and explores Jewish everyday life and identity during the years of the Great Terror. -- Adapted from publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index
Notes Multiple languages
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Subject Jews, Soviet -- Belarus -- Minsk -- History
Jews -- Belarus -- Minsk -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Soviet Union
Jews -- Soviet Union -- Identity
Communism and Judaism -- Belarus -- Minsk
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Communism and Judaism
Jews -- Cultural assimilation
Jews -- Identity
Jews -- Social life and customs
Jews, Soviet
Belarus -- Minsk
Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012049483
ISBN 0253008271
9780253008275
9781299483576
1299483577