- Uniform Title
- Yahadut ba-makhbesh ha-Sovyeṭi. English
- Series
- The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry
Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Altshuler, Mordechai.
- Published
- Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, [2012]
©2012
- Locale
- Soviet Union
- Contents
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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.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Sternberg, Saadya.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-314) and index.
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.
