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Minsk, the present capital of Belarus, was a heavily Jewish city in the decades between the world wars. Recasting our understanding of Soviet Jewish history, Becoming Soviet Jews demonstrates that the often violent social changes enforced by the communist project did not destroy continuities with prerevolutionary forms of Jewish life in Minsk. Using Minsk as a case study of the Sovietization of Jews in the former Pale of Settlement, Elissa Bemporad reveals the ways in which many Jews acculturated to Soviet society in the 1920s and 1930s while remaining committed to older patterns of Jewish identity, such as Yiddish culture and education, attachment to the traditions of the Jewish workers' Bund, circumcision, and kosher slaughter. This pioneering study also illuminates the reshaping of gender relations on the Jewish street and explores Jewish everyday life and identity during the years of the Great Terror.

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  • Title Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk
  • Author Elissa Bemporad
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 292
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press
  • Date 2013-04-29
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780253008220 / 0253008220
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Russian
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Jews - Soviet Union - Identity, Jews - Cultural assimilation - Soviet Union
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012049483
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.892

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About the author

Elissa Bemporad is Jerry and William Ungar Assistant Professor in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College, City University of New York. She is editor (with Margherita Pascucci) of Conzeniana, a series in Yiddish literature and culture.

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