The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Line 1684581311, 9781684581313

Authentically Jewish: Identity, Culture, and the Struggle for Recognition 9781978827622

This book analyzes the different conceptions of authenticity that are behind conflicts over who and what should be recog

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Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 0253347262, 9780253347268, 9780253112156

Kosher pork—an oxymoron? Anna Shternshis’s fascinating study traces the creation of a Soviet Jewish identity that disass

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Jewish Identity and the JDL 9781400868094

To understand the situation of the Jewish Defense League in the United States, Janet Dolgin spent fourteen months with t

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Rebirth of a Culture: Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria Today 1845455118, 9781845455118

After 1945, Jewish writing in German was almost unimaginable-and then only in reference to the Shoah. Only in the 1980s,

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Rebirth of a Culture: Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria today 9780857450289

After 1945, Jewish writing in German was almost unimaginable—and then only in reference to the Shoah. Only in the 1980s,

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Doubly chosen: Jewish identity, the Soviet intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox Church 9780299194833, 9780299194840

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Reinventing Tradition: Russian-Jewish Literature between Soviet Underground and Post-Soviet Deconstruction 9798887191911

Klavdia Smola explores how the Jewish tradition was reinvented in Russian Jewish literature after a long period of assim

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German Jews and the Persistence of Jewish Identity in Conversion: Writing the Jewish Self 3110737221, 9783110737226

Writing the Jewish Self explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the story o

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Reflections on Identity: The Jewish Case 9781618115355

The book deals with identity in general and with Jewish identity in particular. The book rejects rigid and one-sided not

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Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust 9780813550190

Most view the relationship of Jews to the Soviet Union through the lens of repression and silence. Focusing on an elite

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