Research Catalog

Title

Jews and Jewish life in Russia and the Soviet Union / edited by Yaacov Ro'i.

Publication

Ilford, Essex, England ; Portland, Or. : F. Cass, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ro'i, Yaacov.

Description

xiii, 432 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The leading experts of contemporary Jewish history who have contributed to this volume present the first broad and penetrating assessment of Jewish life in Russia, the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. The access gained to archives since the disintegration of the USSR has enabled them to employ a wide array of documentary evidence in discussing politically sensitive issues such as Stalin's plan for the deportation of millions of Jews to Siberia, the extent of collaboration by Russians and Ukrainians during the Second World War and grass-roots anti-Semitism. The documents further provide an opportunity to understand the mechanism of Soviet control over religion and offer insights into Soviet policymaking with regard to its Jewish population and to Israel."--BOOK JACKET. "In both the tsarist and Soviet eras, the preoccupation of the authorities with the Jewish question was extensive. The solutions ranged from assimilation to emigration, repression and annihilation. Yet Russian Jewry managed to adapt itself to the twists and turns of Soviet policy, which was rooted in pragmatic considerations, and to maintain a surprising level of cultural and religious activity. Now, however, the stark reality of demographic trends casts doubt on the future prospects of the Russian Jewish community."--Jacket.

Series Statement

The Cummings Center series

Uniform Title

Cummings Center series

Subjects

• Jews
• History
• Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
• Juden
• Soviet Union > Emigration and immigration
• Sowjetunion
• Russland
• Russia
• Soviet Union > Ethnic relations
• Antisemitism > Soviet Union
• Antisemitism > Russia
• Antisemitisme
• Joden
• Judenverfolgung
• Auswanderung
• Politik
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Geschichte
• Antisemitismus
• Ethnic relations
• Emigration and immigration
• Jews > Russia > History
• Jews > Soviet Union > History

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Did Russian Jewry exist prior to 1917? / Eli Lederhendler -- Patterns of internal Jewish migration in the Russian empire / Shaul Stampfer -- Redefining the Jewish question from Lenin to Gorbachev : terminology or ideology? / Naomi Blank -- Soviet cultural and ethnic policies toward Jews : a legacy reassessed / Igor Krupnik -- Jews into peasants? : solving the Jewish question in Birobidzhan / Robert Weinberg -- The doctors' plot : Stalin's solution to the Jewish question / Iakov Etinger -- Anti-Jewish pogroms in the first Russian Revolution, 1905-1907 / Abraham Ascher -- Russian Jewry as the l̀ittle nation' of the Russian revolution / John D. Klier -- The doctor's plot : the non-Jewish response / Alexander Lokshin -- The unique features of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union / Mordechai Altshuler -- Revival, reconstruction or rejection : Soviet Jewry in the postwar years, 1944-1948 / Allan L. Kagedan -- The re-education of Der Nister, 1922-1929 / David G. Roskies -- Vasilii Grossman and the Holocaust on Soviet soil / John Garrard.
• Institutionalized Jewish culture from the 1960s to the mid-1980s / Velvel Chernin -- Russian and Hebrew literature in cross mirrors / Dimitri Segal -- Judaism in the USSR, 1917-1930 : the fate of religious education / David E. Fishman -- The Jewish religion in the Soviet Union after World War II / Yaacov Ro'i -- Synagogues and synagogue life in Georgia in the postwar era / Lili Baazova -- The Soviet position on the establishment of the state of Israel / Iurii Strizhov -- Soviet diplomacy and the issue of Jewish immigration to Israel, 1946-1953 / Nina Sementchenko and Sergei Mirokhin -- The beginnings of the struggle for Soviet Jewish emigration and its impact on Israel-Soviet relations / Yosef Govrin -- United States policy and Soviet Jewish emigration from Nixon to Bush / Minton Goldman -- Trends in Soviet Jewish demography since the Second World War / Mark Tolts -- Russia's economic future : the calculus of Jewish emigration / Steven Rosefielde -- Conflicting values among the Jewish population of Moscow, Kiev and Minsk / Rozalina Ryvkina -- Emigration, immigration and culture change : towards a trans-national Russian' Jewish community? / Fran Markowitz.

ISBN

• 0714646199
• 9780714646190
• 0714641499
• 9780714641492
• 0714641278
• 9780714641270

LCCN

94033683

OCLC

• ocm31170792
• 31170792
• SCSB-14430634

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library