Becoming Soviet Jews The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk

Name: Becoming Soviet Jews The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk
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ISBN: 9780253008220

ISBN-10: 0253008220

ISBN-13: 9780253008220

Edition: 2013

Authors: Elissa Bemporad

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Minsk, the present capital of Belarus, was a heavily Jewish city in the decades between the world wars. 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. In contrast to the traditional characterization of the Jewish response to the Soviet regime as anticommunist, Elissa Bemporad reveals the ways in which many Minsk Jews acculturated to Soviet society in the 1920s and 1930s while remaining committed to older social and religious norms of Jewish identity, such as Yiddish culture and education,…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 4/29/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Historical Profile of an Eastern European Jewish City



Red Star on the Jewish Street



Entangled Loyalties: The Bund, the Evsektsiia, 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


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index