Research Catalog

Title

Becoming Soviet Jews : the Bolshevik experiment in Minsk / Elissa Bemporad.

Author

Bemporad, Elissa.

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.

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Details

Description

xi, 276 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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"--From the publisher.

Series Statement

Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies

Uniform Title

Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies.

Subjects

• Jews, Soviet > Belarus > Minsk > History
• Jews > Soviet Union > Identity
• Communism and Judaism > Belarus > Minsk
• Jews > Belarus > Minsk > Social life and customs > 20th century
• Jews > Cultural assimilation > Soviet Union

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

*PXW (Minsk) 13-262

ISBN

• 9780253008138 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0253008131 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780253008220 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0253008220 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780253008275 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2012049483

OCLC

783167570

Author

Bemporad, Elissa.

Title

Becoming Soviet Jews : the Bolshevik experiment in Minsk / Elissa Bemporad.

Publisher

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies

Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index.

Research Call Number

*PXW (Minsk) 13-262