Defining Soviet Antisemitism
Everyday Jewish Experiences in the USSR
Defining Soviet Antisemitism
Everyday Jewish Experiences in the USSR
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Description
This edited volume comprehensively examines antisemitism within Soviet society and the Soviet system. It sees expert contributors based in nine different countries define its characteristics, foreground how Jews experienced prejudice, and elucidate the ways in which antisemitism intersected with repression of non-Jewish groups.
Defining Soviet Antisemitism spans a variety of approaches, from empirically based case studies to methodological reflections and 'state of the field' retrospectives. In particular, the book articulates what was specifically 'Soviet' about Soviet antisemitism, while at the same time presenting anti-Jewish prejudice in the USSR as a variable spectrum that extended from 1917 through 1991. The bottom-up perspective of many of the chapters included enhances understanding of grassroots manifestations of antisemitism in the USSR, especially how they shaped the daily lives of ordinary Soviet Jews.
With the nature of antisemitism and its relation to anti-Israel sentiments increasingly hotly debated, Defining Soviet Antisemitism returns us to the notorious case of Soviet antisemitism and sheds new light on how to distinguish and counteract prejudice against Jews based on their Jewish identities in the process.
Table of Contents
List of contributors.
Introduction
Paula Chan, Irina Rebrova. Rethinking Antisemitism in the Soviet Context.
Section 1. Marking Difference: Ideology, Violence, and Jewish Identity in a Changing Political Landscape
Chapter 1. Andrei Zamoiski. The Stormy Years: Belarusian Jews, the Political Kaleidoscope, and Anti-Jewish Violence, 1917–1921.
Chapter 2. Nethanel M. Treves. Coded Antisemitism? Revisiting the 1925–1926 Campaign against the Jewish Bund.
Chapter 3. Alexander Friedman. The Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public (1983–1994): History, Narratives, and Legacy.
Section 2. Inside the System: Jews, Power, and the Limits of Soviet Inclusion
Chapter 4. Jonathan Raspe. Who's Afraid of Antisemitism? Bureaucratic Disputes over Jewish Agricultural Settlement in 1920s Soviet Ukraine.
Chapter 5. Jakob Stu¨rmann. Calculated Power Politics: The Relationship of the Stalinist State Apparatus to its Jews.
Chapter 6. Paula Oppermann. Breaking the Vicious Circle? Antisemitism in Latvia and the 1980's Independence Movement.
Section 3. Barriers and Responses: Jewish Intellectual Life and Identity under Soviet Constraints
Chapter 7. Slava Gerovitch. “Jewish Problems” in Soviet Mathematics: Discriminatory Practices and Counterstrategies.
Chapter 8. Noam Bizan. Rethinking the Refusenik Experience: Jewish Intellectual Emigration from the Soviet Union, 1969–1973.
Chapter 9. Aušra Pažeraite. Dissolving Jewishness: Antisemitism as dissolution of Jewishness and Jewish memory in official communist discourse in Soviet Lithuania (Stalinist era).
Section 4. Voices from the Margins: Personal Narratives and Everyday Antisemitism in the Soviet EraChapter 10. Sarah Gruszka. Antisemitism in the Non-Occupied USSR during the Holocaust: Insights from the Diaries of Leningraders.
Chapter 11. Jeffrey S. Hardy. Antisemitism and Jewish Community in the Soviet Gulag, 1940–1953.
Chapter 12. Svetlana Pogodina. Jewish (Self)Identity and Antisemitism in Soviet Latvia
Product details
| Published | 18 Feb 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 9781350568068 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 20 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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