Becoming Soviet Jews [[electronic resource] ] : the Bolshevik experiment in Minsk / / Elissa Bemporad

• Autore: Bemporad Elissa
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.892/40478609041
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Becoming Soviet Jews
• ISBN: 1-299-48357-7; 0-253-00827-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779661303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Helen B. Schwartz book in Jewish studies.