| Description |
1 online resource (x, 324 p.). |
| Series |
The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry
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Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p.[301]-314) and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. I. From religious leniency to a campaign of oppression -- 1. Soviet religious policy in the wake of the Nazi invasion, 1941-1948 -- 2. The legalization of congregations and synagogues -- 3. The formation of prayer groups (minyanim) -- 4. Jewish spiritual needs in the aftermath of the Holocaust -- 5. Stalin's final years, 1949-1953: persecution and the threat of liquidation -- 6. Public displays of Jewish identity: demonstrations in the Synagogue Square -- 7. Khrushchev's "thaw," 1954-1959 -- 8. The public campaign against religion -- Part II: Between the private and the public spheres -- 9. Rabbis and the congregational establishment -- 10. Cantors for hire -- 11. Financing religious activities -- 12. Religious studies and the Moscow Yeshiva, 1957 -- 13. Kosher slaughter (shechita) and matzah baking -- 14. Holiday observance in the private sphere -- 15. Charity and the Jewish needy -- 16. Ritual baths and circumcision -- 17. Cemeteries, Holocaust memorials, and burial societies -- 18. The attitude of world Jewry and Israel to Judaism in the USSR. |
| Summary |
Unearths the roots of a national awakening among Soviet Jews during World War II and its aftermath. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jews -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Jews -- Soviet Union -- Identity.
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Jews -- Government policy -- Soviet Union.
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Jews -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
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Soviet Union -- Ethnic relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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HISTORY -- General. |
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Ethnic relations. |
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Jews. |
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Jews -- Government policy. |
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Jews -- Identity. |
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Jews -- Social conditions. |
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Soviet Union. |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Sternberg, Saadya.
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| Added Title |
Yahadut ba-makhbesh ha-Sovyeṭi. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Religion and Jewish identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964 Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2012. (DLC) 2012006310 |
| ISBN |
9781611682731 ebook |
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9781611682717 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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1611682711 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781611682724 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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161168272X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781611682731 (ebook) |
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1611682738 (ebook) |
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1611682738 ebook |
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