03548nam 2200673Ia 450 991077966130332120200520144314.01-299-48357-70-253-00827-1(CKB)2550000001020455(EBL)1173323(OCoLC)841794253(SSID)ssj0000871155(PQKBManifestationID)11463681(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871155(PQKBWorkID)10819949(PQKB)11777791(MiAaPQ)EBC1173323(MdBmJHUP)muse27731(Au-PeEL)EBL1173323(CaPaEBR)ebr10689980(CaONFJC)MIL479607(PPN)171931890(EXLCZ)99255000000102045520121212d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBecoming Soviet Jews[electronic resource] the Bolshevik experiment in Minsk /Elissa BemporadBloomington Indiana University Press20131 online resource (292 p.)Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-00813-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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 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.Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies.Jews, SovietBelarusMinskHistoryJewsBelarusMinskSocial life and customs20th centuryJewsCultural assimilationSoviet UnionJewsSoviet UnionIdentityCommunism and JudaismBelarusMinskJews, SovietHistory.JewsSocial life and customsJewsCultural assimilationJewsIdentity.Communism and Judaism305.892/40478609041Bemporad Elissa1123744MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779661303321Becoming Soviet Jews3698519UNINA