ISBN:
0253008131
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0253008220
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0253008271
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9780253008138
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9780253008220
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9780253008275
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xi, 276 pages)
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illustrations
Series Statement:
Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bemporad, Elissa Becoming Soviet Jews
DDC:
305.892/40478609041
Keywords:
1900 - 1999
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Geschichte 1900-2000
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Sozialgeschichte 1918-1941
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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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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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Alltag, Brauchtum
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Geschichte
;
Juden
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Jews, Soviet History
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Jews Social life and customs 20th century
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Jews Cultural assimilation
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Jews Identity
;
Communism and Judaism
;
Juden
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Sowjetunion
;
Minsk
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Online-Publikation
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Minsk
;
Juden
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Sozialgeschichte 1918-1941
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Historical profile of an East European Jewish history -- 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
Description / Table of Contents:
"Recasting our understanding of Soviet Jewish history, Becoming Soviet Jews 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 Settelment, Elissa Bemporad 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"--The publisher
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