Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union

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ISBN: 9780714646190 | 0714646199
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/1/1995

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The main focus of this book is Jewish life under the Soviet regime. The themes of the book include: the attitude of the government to Jews, the fate of the Jewish religion and life in Post-World War II Russia. The volume also contains an assessment of the prospects for future emigration.

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Introduction	p. 1
Did Russian Jewry Exist prior to 1917?	p. 15
Patterns of Internal Jewish Migration in the Russian Empire	p. 28
Redefining the Jewish Question from Lenin to Gorbachev: Terminology or Ideology?	p. 51
Soviet Cultural and Ethnic Policies toward Jews: A Legacy Reassessed	p. 67
Jews into Peasants? Solving the Jewish Question in Birobidzhan	p. 87
The Doctors' Plot: Stalin's Solution to the Jewish Question	p. 103
Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the First Russian Revolution, 1905-1907	p. 127
Russian Jewry as the 'Little Nation' of the Russian Revolution	p. 146
The Doctors' Plot: The Non-Jewish Response	p. 157
The Unique Features of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union	p. 171
Revival, Reconstruction or Rejection: Soviet Jewry in the Postwar Years, 1944-48	p. 189
The Re-education of Der Nister, 1922-1929	p. 201
Vasilii Grossman and the Holocaust on Soviet Soil	p. 212
Institutionalized Jewish Culture from the 1960s to the mid-1980s	p. 226
Russian and Hebrew Literature in Cross Mirrors	p. 237
Judaism in the USSR, 1917-1930: The Fate of Religious Education	p. 251
The Jewish Religion in the Soviet Union after World War II	p. 263
Synagogues and Synagogue Life in Georgia in the Postwar Era	p. 290
The Soviet Position on the Establishment of the State of Israel	p. 303
Soviet Diplomacy and the Issue of Jewish Immigration to Israel, 1946-1953	p. 316
The Beginnings of the Struggle for Soviet Jewish Emigration and Its Impact on Israel-Soviet Relations	p. 327
United States Policy and Soviet Jewish Emigration from Nixon to Bush	p. 338
Trends in Soviet Jewish Demography since the Second World War	p. 365
Russia's Economic Future: The Calculus of Jewish Emigration	p. 383
Conflicting Values among the Jewish Population of Moscow, Kiev and Minsk	p. 391
Emigration, Immigration and Culture Change: Toward a Trans-national Russian' Jewish Community?	p. 403
Notes on Contributors	p. 415
Glossary	p. 419
Index	p. 421
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