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

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
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:	Soviet Union - Economic conditions - 1945-1955. -
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9781611682731 (electronic bk.)

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

Religion and Jewish identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964[electronic resource] /Mordechai Altshuler ; translated by Saadya Sternberg. - 1st ed. - Waltham, Mass. :Brandeis University Press,c2012. - 1 online resource (328 p.). - The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 9781611682731 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

960258
Jews
--Social conditions.--Soviet UnionSubjects--Geographical Terms:

799034
Soviet Union
--Economic conditions--1945-1955.

LC Class. No.: DS134.85 / .A4813 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 305.892/404709045

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