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

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Unearths the roots of a national awakening among Soviet Jews during World War II and its aftermath.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Altshuler, Mordechai
Other Authors: Sternberg, Saadya
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Hebrew
Published: Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2012.
Series:Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Jews > Soviet Union > History.
Jews > Soviet Union > Identity.
Jews > Government policy > Soviet Union.
Jews > Soviet Union > Social conditions.
Juifs > URSS > Histoire.
Juifs > URSS > Identité.
Juifs > Politique gouvernementale > URSS.
Juifs > URSS > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > General.
Ethnic relations
Jews
Jews > Government policy
Jews > Identity
Jews > Social conditions
Juden
Ethnische Identität
Kulturelle Identität
Religionspolitik
Religionsausübung
Soviet Union > Ethnic relations.
Soviet Union
Sowjetunion
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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