This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date history of the Jews in the Soviet Union and is based on first-hand documentary evidence and the application of a pioneering research method into the fate of national minorities. Within a four-part chronological framework, Professor Pinkus examines not only the legal-political status of the Jews, and their reciprocal relationship with the Soviet majority, but also the impact of internal economic, demographic and social processes upon the religious, educational and cultural life of Soviet Jewry. A second layer of analysis describes in depth the complex linkages between the Jews of the Soviet Union, the Jews in other diasporas and the state of Israel itself. The Jews of the Soviet Union marks a major contribution to the historiography and social analysis of its subject and provides a worthy companion to Professor Pinkus's acclaimed documentary study The Soviet Union and the Jews 1948-1967.
This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date history of the Jews in the Soviet Union and is based on first-hand documentary evidence and the application of a pioneering research method into the fate of national minorities. Within a four-part chronological framework, Professor Pinkus examines not only the legal-political status of the Jews, and their reciprocal relationship with the Soviet majority, but also the impact of internal economic, demographic and social processes upon the religious, educational and cultural life of Soviet Jewry. A second layer of analysis describes in depth the complex linkages between the Jews of the Soviet Union, the Jews in other diasporas and the state of Israel itself. The Jews of the Soviet Union marks a major contribution to the historiography and social analysis of its subject and provides a worthy companion to Professor Pinkus's acclaimed documentary study The Soviet Union and the Jews 1948-1967.
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Jews of Russia: historical background; 2. The Jews of the Soviet Union: the years of construction, 1917–1939; 3. The years of destruction, 1939–1953; 4. The post-Stalin period, 1953–1983; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
This is a comprehensive and topical history of the Jews in the Soviet Union.
'Through sifting memoirs, newspaper reports, oral histories and official documents, Pinkus recreates the precarious history of the Soviet Jews more fully and vividly than previous writers.' Publishers Weekly
'Through sifting memoirs, newspaper reports, oral histories and official documents, Pinkus recreates the precarious history of the Soviet Jews more fully and vividly than previous writers.' Publishers Weekly
This authoritative history of Soviet Jewry holds new insights. Behind the seemingly spontaneous massacres of Jews in tsarist Russia, Pinkus detects the guiding hand of Moscow. He assesses the Bolsheviks' equivocal attempts to solve the ``Jewish question,'' first by permitting the creation of Jewish Soviets and law courts, then by forcing Jews to move to remote Birobidzhan, made an Autonomous Jewish Region in 1934 in an experiment foredoomed to failure. Pinkus, professor of history at Ben-Gurion University in Israel and author of The Soviet Government and the Jews, traces the remarkable blossoming of Jewish culture in the U.S.S.R. despite inbred, institutionalized anti-Semitism. After the grim ``years of destruction'' under Stalin, Jews began circulating their own samizdat, or underground pamphlets. Today the synagogue has again become an important meeting place. Through sifting memoirs, newspaper reports, oral histories and official documents, Pinkus recreates the precarious history of the Soviet Jews more fully and vividly than previous writers. (August)
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