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UNINA9910816643703321 |
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Autore |
Bemporad Elissa |
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Titolo |
Becoming Soviet Jews : the Bolshevik experiment in Minsk / / Elissa Bemporad |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-299-48357-7 |
0-253-00827-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (292 p.) |
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Collana |
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Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jews, Soviet - Belarus - Minsk - History |
Jews - Belarus - Minsk - Social life and customs - 20th century |
Jews - Cultural assimilation - Soviet Union |
Jews - Soviet Union - Identity |
Communism and Judaism - Belarus - Minsk |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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 |
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