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020 $a9780253008138 (cloth : alk. paper)
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020 $z9780253008275 (ebook)
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050 00 $aDS135.B382$bM563 2013
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100 1 $aBemporad, Elissa.
245 10 $aBecoming Soviet Jews :$bthe Bolshevik experiment in Minsk /$cElissa Bemporad.
264 1 $aBloomington :$bIndiana University Press,$c2013.
300 $axi, 276 pages :$bill. ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aHelen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index.
505 0 $aHistorical profile of an East European Jewish history -- Red star on the Jewish street -- Entangled loyalties: the Bund, the evsektsiia, and the creation of a "new" Jewish political culture -- Soviet Minsk: the capital of Yiddish -- Behavior unbecoming a Communist: Jewish religious practice in a Soviet capital -- Housewives, mothers and workers: roles and representations of Jewish women in times of revolution -- Jewish ordinary life in the midst of extraordinary purges: 1934-1939.
520 $a"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 1920s and 1930s 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.
650 0 $aJews, Soviet$zBelarus$zMinsk$xHistory.
650 0 $aJews$zBelarus$zMinsk$xSocial life and customs$y20th century.
650 0 $aJews$xCultural assimilation$zSoviet Union.
650 0 $aJews$zSoviet Union$xIdentity.
650 0 $aCommunism and Judaism$zBelarus$zMinsk.
830 0 $aHelen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies.