Becoming Soviet Jews : the Bolshevik experiment in Minsk / Elissa Bemporad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bemporad, Elissa.

Series:

Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies.

Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies

Language:

English

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Jews, Soviet--Belarus--Minsk--History.

Jews, Soviet.

Jews--Belarus--Minsk--Social life and customs--20th century.

Jews.

Jews--Cultural assimilation--Soviet Union.

Jews--Soviet Union--Identity.

Communism and Judaism--Belarus--Minsk.

Communism and Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

Multiple languages

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"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 Jews in the former Pale of Settelment, Elissa Bemporad reveals the ways in which many Jews acculturated to Soviet society in the 1920's and 1930's while remaining committed to older patterns of Jewish identity, such as Yiddish culture and education, attachment to the traditions of the Jewish workers' Bund, circumcision, and kosher slaughter. This pioneering study also illuminates the reshaping of gender relations on the Jewish street and explores Jewish everyday life and identity during the years of the Great Terror"--From the publisher.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781299483576

1299483577

9780253008275

0253008271

OCLC:

841794253