- 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 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"--The publisher.
- Series
- Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies
Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Bemporad, Elissa.
- Published
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013
- Locale
- Belarus
Minsk
Soviet Union
Sowjetunion
Weissrussland
- Contents
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Historical 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.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index.
Historical 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.
