Title Jewish hearts : a study of dynamic ethnicity in the United States and the Soviet Union / Betty N. Hoffman

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi pages) : illustrations, map Series SUNY series in oral and public history SUNY series in oral and public history. Contents Definitions and Demographics -- Russian Jews -- Soviet Jews -- American Jews -- Sources of Information -- "The Literature" -- Theoretical Analysis in a Complex World -- The Transformation of Jewish Life in Two Contexts, 1881-1970 -- The Old Country -- Ethnicity and Anti-Semitism: Critical Boundaries -- Assassination -- Politics and Power -- Religion and Ideology: The Basis for Social Cohesion -- Education -- Economic Production under Anti-Semitic Pressure -- War, Chaos, and Change -- Revolution -- The Search for a Niche in the Soviet World -- New Incentives, New Constraints, and Anti-Semitism -- The Consolidation of Communist Power -- The Decimation of Religious Practice: Silence as a Strategy -- Education for the New Economy -- The Great Patriotic War: The Decimation of the Jews -- Discrimination at Home, Support for Israel Abroad -- Stalin's Final Terror -- The Post-Stalin Era -- The Six Day War -- Beyond Silence: Moving toward a Positive Jewish Ethnicity -- Die Goldene Medine: The Golden Land -- Hartford: The Challenge of the New World -- Yiddishkeit in Hartford: The Immigrant Neighborhood -- Adapting to the Hartford Political System -- Religious Practice: The Defining Ethnic Marker -- Kinship and Social Structure -- Education and Americanization: New Secular Trends -- Searching for Economic Security -- The Beginning of Immigration Restriction -- The Consolidation of the Hartford Community -- The Area of Second Settlement -- The Depression and Anti-Semitism: Limiting the Refugees -- World War II and the Aftermath Summary Describing herself as growing up in "a kosher-salami-on-sliced-white- bread family in the 1950s, Hoffman (anthropology, Central Connecticut State U.) studies the exodus and resettlement of Soviet Jews in Hartford since 1975 in the context of the earlier massive Russian Jewish emigration wave of 1881-1930. The author analyzes how Jewish life and identity were transformed in both the Old and New Country. The dozen photos include an illegal Passover seder in the Ukraine (1950), immigrants of different eras, and volunteers-- including the author--helping them. c. Book News Inc Analysis "Multi-User" Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Jews -- Migrations. Jews -- Soviet Union -- Identity Jews -- Soviet Union -- History. Immigrants -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History -- 20th century Jews, Soviet -- Connecticut -- Hartford Jews -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Identity Jews -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) Ethnic relations Immigrants Jews Jews -- Identity Jews -- Migrations Jews, Soviet Einwanderer Identität Joden. Etnisch bewustzijn. Immigranten. SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Ethnic relations Hartford (Conn.) -- Ethnic relations Subject Connecticut -- Hartford Soviet Union Hartford, Conn. Russland Sowjetunion Juden. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 00067120 ISBN 9780791490785 0791490785 0791449459 9780791449455 9780791449462 0791449467

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