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Author Shternshis, Anne

Title Soviet and Kosher
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (281 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Sara F.'s Kosher Pork; Note on Transliteration; 1. Antireligious Propaganda and the Transformation of JewishInstitutions and Traditions; 2. From Illiteracy to Worker Correspondents: Soviet YiddishAmateur Writing; 3. Amateur Local Yiddish Theaters; 4. Soviet Yiddish Songs as a Mirror of Jewish Identity; 5. Soviet in Form, National in Content: Russian Jewish PopularCulture; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Anna Shternshis's fascinating study traces the creation of a Soviet Jewish identity that disassociated Jewishness from Judaism. The cultural transformation of Soviet Jews between 1917 and 1941 was one of the most ambitious experiments in social engineering in the past century. During this period, Russian Jews went from relative isolation to being highly integrated into the new Soviet culture and society, while retaining a strong ethnic and cultural identity. This identity took shape during the 1920s and 1930s, when the government attempted to create a new Jewish culture, ''national in form'' a
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Subject Jews -- Soviet Union -- History.
Jewish communists -- Soviet Union
Jews -- Soviet Union -- Identity
Popular culture -- Soviet Union
Yiddish literature -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism
Jews in popular culture -- Soviet Union
Jewish communists
Jews
Jews -- Identity
Jews in popular culture
Popular culture
Yiddish literature
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780253112156
025311215X