Becoming post-Communist : jews and the new political cultures of Russia and Eastern Europe / editor: Eli Lederhendler

"Across the landscape that until 1939 housed most of the world's Jewish population, the closing decade of the 20th century witnessed dramatic upheaval...
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"Across the landscape that until 1939 housed most of the world's Jewish population, the closing decade of the 20th century witnessed dramatic upheavals: the overturning of the East European communist governments and the fall of the USSR, accompanied by a major Jewish emigration movement. The legacy of the Jewish presence in those countries, as viewed from today's vantage point, and the ways in which it became enmeshed in the quest by people of the region-Jews and non-Jews alike-to secure their prospects for the future, highlighted fundamental issues about the nature and quality of the politics of memory, national identity, and the continuity and relative stability of regimes in the region. If those questions were important even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, understanding their implications now seems even more crucial. In a field fraught with conflicting narratives, the challenges of social and political reconstruction are primary concerns for peoples and governments. The experts contributing to this volume apply interdisciplinary approaches to analyze and interpret a multiplicity of post-communist social realities and aid our understanding of recent events"--
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PPN (Katalog-ID):	1822569699

Personen:	Lederhendler, Eli - 1952- [HerausgeberIn]

Medienart:	Buch
Umfang:	xii, 292 Seiten ; Illustrationen, Diagramme
Sprache:	Englisch

Erschienen:	New York, NY: Oxford University Press ; [2023]

Basisklassifikation:	15.71 Osteuropa Geschichte 89.53 Politische Kultur 15.96 Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel
RVK:	NY 4780 / Russland, Sowjetunion, GUS [Geschichte, Geschichte der Juden, Geschichte der Juden nach Zeitabschnitten und Ländern, Juden in sonstigen europäischen Ländern, Russland, Sowjetunion, GUS]
Schlagwörter:	Osteuropa / Juden / Postkommunismus / Politische Kultur / Kollektives Gedächtnis / Antisemitismus / Nationalismus
weitere Schlagwörter:	Europe, Central, Politics and government, 21st century Europe, Eastern, Politics and government, 21st century Antisemitism Antisemitism Post-communism Post-communism Jews

Allgemeiner Hinweis:	Includes bibliographical references

Reihe:	Studies in contemporary jewry - 33
Bibliogr. Zusammenhang:	Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe: Lederhendler, Eli ; New York, NY, , United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2023 ; Becoming post-Communist

ISBN:	978-0-19-768721-5 978-0-19-768723-9 978-0-19-768724-6

DOI/URN:	10.1093/oso/9780197687215.001.0001
EAN/UPC:	9780197687215