Becoming Soviet Jews : The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bemporad, Elissa
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Series:Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Communism and Judaism > Belarus > Minsk.
Jews > Soviet Union > Identity.
Jews > Cultural assimilation > Soviet Union.
Jews > Belarus > Minsk > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Jews, Soviet > Belarus > Minsk > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Historical profile of an East European Jewish history
  • 2. Red star on the Jewish street
  • 3. Entangled loyalties: the Bund, the evsekstiia, and the creation of a "new" Jewish political culture
  • 4. Soviet Minsk: the capital of Yiddish
  • 5. Behavior unbecoming a Communist: Jewish religious practice in a Soviet capital
  • 6. Housewives, mothers and workers: roles and representations of Jewish women in times of revolution
  • 7. Jewish ordinary life in the midst of extraordinary purges: 1934-1939
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index.

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