Jewish life after the USSR / edited by Zvi Gitelman with Musya Glants and Marshall I. Goldman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gitelman, Zvi Y.

Glants, Musya, 1934-

Goldman, Marshall I.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Russia--Identity.

Jews.

Jews--Russia--Politics and government--20th century.

Jews--Russia--Social conditions--20th century.

Social conditions.

Politics and government.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Russia--Ethnic relations.

Russia.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

vi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2003]

Contents:

Religion, Israel, and the development of Soviet Jewry's National consciousness, 1967-91 / Yaacov Ro'i

Nationalities policy, the Soviet regime, the Jews, and emigration / Theodore H. Friedgut

Thinking about being Jewish in Russia and Ukraine / Zvi Gitelman

E pluribus Unum? Post-Soviet Jewish identities and their implications for communal reconstruction / Valeriy Chervyakov, Zvi Gitelman, and Vladimir Shapiro

Russian Jews in business / Marshall I. Goldman

Russian antisemitism, 1996-2000 / Robert J. Brym

The widening gap between our model of Russian Jewry and the reality (1989-99) / Martin Horwitz

From leadership to community: laying the foundation for Jewish community in Russia / Sarai Brachman Shoup

Feasting, memorializing, praying, and remaining Jewish in the Soviet Union: the case of the Bukharan Jews / Alanna Cooper

The revival of academic studies of Judaica in independent Ukraine / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

Demography of the Jews in the former Soviet Union: yesterday and today / Mark Tolts

Jewish converts to orthodoxy in Russia in recent decades / Judith Deutsch Kornblatt

Jewish artists in Russian art: painting and sculpture in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras / Musya Glants

constructing Jewish Identity in contemporary Russian fiction / Mikhail Krutikov.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0253341620

0253215560

OCLC:

49821071