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Religion and Jewish identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964

Title
  1. Religion and Jewish identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964 / Mordechai Altshuler ; translated by Saadya Sternberg.
Published by
  1. Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, ©2012.
Author
  1. Altshuler, Mordechai.

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Additional authors
  1. Sternberg, Saadya.
Description
  1. x, 324 pages; 25 cm.
Series statement
  1. The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry
Uniform title
  1. Yahadut ba-makhbesh ha-Sovyeṭi. English
  2. ‏יהדות במכבש הסובייטי. אנגלית
  3. Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
Alternative title
  1. Yahadut ba-makhbesh ha-Sovyeṭi.
Subject
  1. Jews > Soviet Union > History
  2. Jews > Soviet Union > Identity
  3. Jews > Government policy > Soviet Union
  4. Jews > Soviet Union > Social conditions
  5. Ethnic relations
  6. Jews
  7. Jews > Government policy
  8. Jews > Identity
  9. Jews > Social conditions
  10. Juden
  11. Ethnische Identität
  12. Kulturelle Identität
  13. Religionspolitik
  14. Religionsausübung
  15. Jews > Soviet Union
  16. Jews > Soviet Union > Social life and customs
  17. Soviet Union > Ethnic relations
  18. Soviet Union
  19. Sowjetunion
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. Pt. I. From religious leniency to a campaign of oppression -- 1. Soviet religious policy in the wake of the Nazi invasion, 1941-1948 -- 2. The legalization of congregations and synagogues -- 3. The formation of prayer groups (minyanim) -- 4. Jewish spiritual needs in the aftermath of the Holocaust -- 5. Stalin's final years, 1949-1953: persecution and the threat of liquidation -- 6. Public displays of Jewish identity: demonstrations in the Synagogue Square -- 7. Khrushchev's "thaw," 1954-1959 -- 8. The public campaign against religion -- Part II: Between the private and the public spheres -- 9. Rabbis and the congregational establishment -- 10. Cantors for hire -- 11. Financing religious activities -- 12. Religious studies and the Moscow Yeshiva, 1957 -- 13. Kosher slaughter (shechita) and matzah baking -- 14. Holiday observance in the private sphere -- 15. Charity and the Jewish needy -- 16. Ritual baths and circumcision -- 17. Cemeteries, Holocaust memorials, and burial societies -- 18. The attitude of world Jewry and Israel to Judaism in the USSR.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p.[301]-314) and index.