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Religion and Jewish Identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Altshuler, Mordechai
Otros Autores: Sternberg, Saadya
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Hebrew
Publicado: Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pt. I. From religious leniency to a campaign of oppression
  • 1. Soviet religious policy in the wake of the Nazi invasion, 1941-1948
  • 2. The legalization of congregations and synagogues
  • 3. The formation of prayer groups (minyanim)
  • 4. Jewish spiritual needs in the aftermath of the Holocaust
  • 5. Stalin's final years, 1949-1953: persecution and the threat of liquidation
  • 6. Public displays of Jewish identity: demonstrations in the Synagogue Square
  • 7. Khrushchev's "thaw," 1954-1959
  • 8. The public campaign against religion
  • Part II: Between the private and the public spheres
  • 9. Rabbis and the congregational establishment
  • 10. Cantors for hire
  • 11. Financing religious activities
  • 12. Religious studies and the Moscow Yeshiva, 1957
  • 13. Kosher slaughter (shechita) and matzah baking
  • 14. Holiday observance in the private sphere
  • 15. Charity and the Jewish needy
  • 16. Ritual baths and circumcision
  • 17. Cemeteries, Holocaust memorials, and burial societies
  • 18. The attitude of world Jewry and Israel to Judaism in the USSR.