Revolution, repression, and revival : the Soviet Jewish Experience / edited by Zvi Gitelman and Yaacov Ro'i.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gitelman, Zvi Y.

Ro'i, Yaacov.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Former Soviet republics--History.

Jews.

History.

Former Soviet republics--Ethnic relations.

Former Soviet republics.

Physical Description:

xi, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2007]

Summary:

In less than a century, Jews in Russia have survived two world wars, revolution, political and economic turmoil, and persecution by both Nazis and Soviets. Yet they have managed not only to survive, but also to transform themselves and emerge as a highly creative, educated entity that has transplanted itself into other countries. Revolution, Repression, and Revival: The Soviet Jewish Experience enhances our understanding of the Russian Jewish past by bringing together some of the latest thinking by leading scholars from the former Soviet Union, Israel, and the United States. The book explains the contradictions, ambiguities, and anomalies of the Russian Jewish story and helps us understand one of the most complex and unsettled chapters in modern Jewish history.

Contents:

Part I Jews and the Soviet Regime: Encounters and Reactions

1 The "Jewish Battalions" in the Red Army / Oleg Budnitsky 15

2 Zionism in the Early Soviet State: Between Legality and Persecution / Ziva Galili 37

3 Jewish Agricultural Settlement in the Interwar Period: A Balance Sheet / Jonathan Dekel-Chen 69

4 The Belorussian Shtetl in the 1920s and 1930s / Arkady Zeltser 91

5 The Jews of a Soviet Metropolis in the Interwar Period: The Case of Leningrad / Michael Beizer 113

6 Social Trends among Jews in the Post-Stalin Years / Samuel Barnai 131

Part II Anti-Semitism in War and Peace

7 Jewish Refugees and Evacuees under Soviet Rule and German Occupation: The North Caucasus / Kiril Feferman 155

8 The Genesis of Establishment Anti-Semitism in the USSR: The Black Years, 1948-1953 / Gennadi Kostyrchenko 179

9 Attitudes toward Jews in Post-Soviet Russia and the Problem of Anti-Semitism / Lev Gudkov 193

Part III Reconstructing Jewish Communities in the USSR and its Successor States

10 The Jewish National Movement and the Struggle for Community in the Late Soviet Period / Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin 221

11 The Problematics of Jewish Community Development in Contemporary Russia / Theodore H. Friedgut 239

12 Putin and the Jewish Oligarchs: Prejudice or Politics? / Marshall I. Goldman 273

13 Post-Soviet Jewish Demography, 1989-2004 / Mark Tolts 283

14 The Demography of Post-Soviet Jewry: Global and Local Contexts / Sergio DellaPergola 313

Part IV The New Russian-Jewish Diaspora: Reception and Adaptation

15 The Russian Aliya in Israel: Community and Identity in the Second Decade / Elazar Leshem 333

16 Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in the Israeli Population and Labor Force / Moshe Sicron 361

Afterword: Looking into the Future / Zvi Gitelman 379.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780742558175

0742558177

OCLC:

123029682