ISBN:
9781611682717
,
9781611682724
,
1611682711
,
161168272X
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 324 S.
,
25 cm
Year of publication:
2012
Series Statement:
The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry
Series Statement:
A Sarnat library book
Uniform Title:
Yahadut ba-makhbesh ha-Sovyeṭi 〈engl.〉
DDC:
305.892/404709045
Keywords:
Jews History
;
Jews Identity
;
Jews Government policy
;
Jews Social conditions
;
Sowjetunion
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Juden
;
Judentum
;
Religionsausübung
;
Religionspolitik
;
Geschichte 1941-1964
;
Soviet Union Ethnic relations
;
Sowjetunion
;
Juden
;
Religionspolitik
;
Religionsausübung
;
Geschichte 1941-1964
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
Literaturverz. S. [301] - 314
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