Table of Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Creativity versus Repression: The Jews in Russia, 1881-1917
2. Revolution and the Ambiguities of Liberation
3. Reaching for Utopia: Building Socialism and a New Jewish Culture
4. The Holocaust
5. The Black Years and the Gray, 1948-1967
6. Soviet Jews, 1967-1987: To Reform, Conform, or Leave?
7. The "Other" Jews of the Former USSR: Georgian, Central Asian, and Mountain Jews
8. The Post-Soviet Era: Winding Down or Starting Up Again?
9. The Paradoxes of Post-Soviet Jewry

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A richly illustrated survey of the Jewish historical experience in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet era.

About the Author

Zvi Gitelman is Professor of Political Science, Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is author of, among other works, Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930 and editor of Bitter Legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the USSR (Indiana University Press).

Reviews

"Anyone with even a passing interest in the history of Russian Jewry will want to own this splendid ... book." Janet Hadda, Los Angeles Times "... illuminated by an extraordinary collection of photographs that vividly reflect the hopes, triumphs and agonies of Russian Jewish life." David E. Fishman, Hadassah Magazine "Wonderful pictures ... An uplifting [book] for a broad and general audience." Alexander Orbach, Slavic Review