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Soviet and kosher : Jewish popular culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 / Anna Shternshis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shternshis, Anna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Soviet Union--History.
- Jews.
- Jewish communists--Soviet Union.
- Jewish communists.
- Jews--Identity--Soviet Union.
- Popular culture--Soviet Union.
- Popular culture.
- Yiddish literature--Soviet Union--History and criticism.
- Yiddish literature.
- Jews in popular culture--Soviet Union.
- Jews in popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Kosher pork -- an oxymoron? Anna Shternshis's fascinating study traces the creation of a Soviet Jewish identity that disassociated Jewishness from Judaism. The cultural transformation of Soviet Jews between 1917 and 1941 was one of the most ambitious experiments in social engineering of the past century. During this period, Russian Jews went from relative isolation to being highly integrated into the new Soviet culture and society, while retaining a strong ethnic and cultural identity. This identity to
- Contents:
- Introduction : Sara F.'s Kosher Pork
- Antireligious propaganda and the transformation of Jewish institutions and traditions
- From illiteracy to worker correspondents : Soviet Yiddish amateur writing
- Amateur local Yiddish theaters
- Soviet Yiddish songs as a mirror of Jewish identity
- Soviet in form, national in content : Russian Jewish popular culture
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references: p. [217]-239.
- ISBN:
- 9780253112156
- 025311215X
- OCLC:
- 476041212
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