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An illustrated survey of the lives and history of Jews in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet era.

Trade Review
"Anyone with even a passing interest in the history of Russian Jewry will want to own this splendid ... book." Janet Hadda, Los Angeles Times "... illuminated by an extraordinary collection of photographs that vividly reflect the hopes, triumphs and agonies of Russian Jewish life." David E. Fishman, Hadassah Magazine "Wonderful pictures ... An uplifting [book] for a broad and general audience." Alexander Orbach, Slavic Review

Table of Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Creativity versus Repression: The Jews in Russia, 1881-1917
2. Revolution and the Ambiguities of Liberation
3. Reaching for Utopia: Building Socialism and a New Jewish Culture
4. The Holocaust
5. The Black Years and the Gray, 1948-1967
6. Soviet Jews, 1967-1987: To Reform, Conform, or Leave?
7. The "Other" Jews of the Former USSR: Georgian, Central Asian, and Mountain Jews
8. The Post-Soviet Era: Winding Down or Starting Up Again?
9. The Paradoxes of Post-Soviet Jewry

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      Publisher: MH - Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/22/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780253214188, 978-0253214188
      ISBN10: 0253214181
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An illustrated survey of the lives and history of Jews in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet era.

      Trade Review
      "Anyone with even a passing interest in the history of Russian Jewry will want to own this splendid ... book." Janet Hadda, Los Angeles Times "... illuminated by an extraordinary collection of photographs that vividly reflect the hopes, triumphs and agonies of Russian Jewish life." David E. Fishman, Hadassah Magazine "Wonderful pictures ... An uplifting [book] for a broad and general audience." Alexander Orbach, Slavic Review

      Table of Contents

      Preliminary Table of Contents:

      Introduction
      1. Creativity versus Repression: The Jews in Russia, 1881-1917
      2. Revolution and the Ambiguities of Liberation
      3. Reaching for Utopia: Building Socialism and a New Jewish Culture
      4. The Holocaust
      5. The Black Years and the Gray, 1948-1967
      6. Soviet Jews, 1967-1987: To Reform, Conform, or Leave?
      7. The "Other" Jews of the Former USSR: Georgian, Central Asian, and Mountain Jews
      8. The Post-Soviet Era: Winding Down or Starting Up Again?
      9. The Paradoxes of Post-Soviet Jewry

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