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020 _a9781611682731
020 _a1611682738
020 _z9781611682717 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _z9781611682724 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 0 0 _aDS134.85
_b.A4813 2012
082 0 0 _a305.892/404709045
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100 1 _aAltshuler, Mordechai.
240 1 0 _aYahadut ba-makhbesh ha-Sovyeáš­i.
_lEnglish
245 1 0 _aReligion and Jewish identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964
_h[electronic resource] /
_cMordechai Altshuler ; translated by Saadya Sternberg.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aWaltham, Mass. :
_bBrandeis University Press,
_cc2012.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (328 p.)
490 0 _aThe Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPt. 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aJews
_zSoviet Union
_xSocial conditions.
650 0 _aJews
_xGovernment policy
_zSoviet Union.
650 0 _aJews
_zSoviet Union
_xIdentity.
650 0 _aJews
_zSoviet Union
_xHistory.
651 0 _aSoviet Union
_xEthnic relations.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aSternberg, Saadya.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781611682731/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c35678
_d35678