Religion and Jewish identity in the ...
Altshuler, Mordechai.

 

  • Religion and Jewish identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964[electronic resource] /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 305.892/404709045
    Title/Author: Religion and Jewish identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964/ Mordechai Altshuler ; translated by Saadya Sternberg.
    Author: Altshuler, Mordechai.
    other author: Sternberg, Saadya.
    Published: Waltham, Mass. : : Brandeis University Press,, c2012.
    Description: 1 online resource (328 p.).
    Subject: Jews - Social conditions. - Soviet Union
    Subject: Jews - Government policy - Soviet Union.
    Subject: Jews - Identity. - Soviet Union
    Subject: Jews - History. - Soviet Union
    Subject: Soviet Union - Pictorial works. - History - 1925-1953
    ISBN: 9781611682731 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 1611682738 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9781611682717 (hbk.)
    ISBN: 9781611682724 (pbk.)
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [NT 15000228]: 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.
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