Description |
1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies |
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Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies.
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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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Print version record |
Subject |
Jews, Soviet -- Belarus -- Minsk -- History
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Jews -- Belarus -- Minsk -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Soviet Union
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Jews -- Soviet Union -- Identity
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Communism and Judaism -- Belarus -- Minsk
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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Communism and Judaism
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Jews -- Cultural assimilation
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Jews -- Identity
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Jews -- Social life and customs
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Jews, Soviet
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Belarus -- Minsk
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Soviet Union
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2012049483 |
ISBN |
0253008271 |
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9780253008275 |
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9781299483576 |
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1299483577 |
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