Research Catalog

Title

A century of ambivalence : the Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the present / Zvi Gitelman.

Author

Gitelman, Zvi Y.

Publication

New York : Schocken Books : Distributed by Pantheon Books, [1988]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mazal Holocaust Collection. TxSaTAM
• Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.
• Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)

Description

xv, 336 pages : illustrations, maps; 32 cm

Summary

A photographic history, based mainly on the New York YIVO Institute archives. Surveys Jewish life in Russia, focusing on the pogroms of 1881-82 and 1905 and their effects (e.g. the Jewish revolutionary movements, the Bund, and Zionism), and the Beilis trial of 1911. Pp. 96-108 discuss the ambivalent Jewish reaction to the Bolshevik Revolution. Although the Bolsheviks were hostile to Jewish concerns, the new regime offered great opportunities to literate Jews, while the Whites and the Ukrainians were responsible for pogroms and exploited antisemitism to rally anti-Bolshevik support. Ch. 4 (pp. 175-223) describes the fate of the Jews of the USSR during the Holocaust, Jewish resistance, participation in the partisan movement and in the Red Army. Also surveys Stalin's anti-Jewish campaign from 1948 on, the Doctor's Plot, Soviet anti-Zionism, the emigration movement, and prospects for Jewish life in the USSR.

Subjects

• Jews
• Illustrated works
• History
• 1800-1899
• Ethnic relations
• Russia > Ethnic relations
• Jews > Russia > Pictorial works
• Jews > Russia > History > 19th century
• Jews > Soviet Union > Pictorial works
• Soviet Union > Ethnic relations
• Jews > Soviet Union > History

Genre/Form

• History.
• Illustrated works.

Note

• Photographs from the collections of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research and private owners, exhibited at the Jewish Museum in New York in Feb. 1988.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-332) and indexes.

Contents

Creativity versus repression: the Jews in Russia, 1881-1917 -- Revolution and the ambiguities of liberation -- Reaching for utopia: building socialism and a new Jewish culture -- The holocaust -- The black years and the gray, 1948-1967 -- Soviet Jews, 1967-1987: to reform, conform, or leave? -- The "other" Jews of the USSR: Georgian, Central Asian, and Mountain Jews -- A century of ambivalence.

Call Number

DS134.82

ISBN

• 0805240349
• 9780805240344

LCCN

87009822

OCLC

15792452

Author

Gitelman, Zvi Y., author.

Title

A century of ambivalence : the Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the present / Zvi Gitelman.

Publisher

New York : Schocken Books : Distributed by Pantheon Books, [1988]

Edition

1st ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-332) and indexes.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Mazal Holocaust Collection. TxSaTAM

Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.

Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)

Other Form:

Online version: Gitelman, Zvi Y. Century of ambivalence. 1st ed. New York : Schocken Books : Distributed by Pantheon Books, ©1988 (OCoLC)572816240

Online version: Gitelman, Zvi Y. Century of ambivalence. 1st ed. New York : Schocken Books : Distributed by Pantheon Books, ©1988 (OCoLC)608834632

Research Call Number

*R-JWS DS134.82 .G58 1988