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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mordechai Altshuler; Saadya Sternberg |
ISBN: | 9781611682717 1611682711 9781611682724 161168272X 9781611682731 1611682738 |
OCLC Number: | 760976152 |
Description: | x, 324 pages ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | 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. |
Series Title: | Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered) |
Other Titles: | Yahadut ba-makhbesh ha-Sovyeṭi. |
Responsibility: | Mordechai Altshuler ; translated by Saadya Sternberg. |
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