Research Catalog

Title

The Soviet government and the Jews, 1948-1967 : a documented study / Benjamin Pinkus ; general editor, Jonathan Frankel.

Author

Pinkus, Benjamin, 1933-2014

Publication

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984.

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Additional Authors

Frankel, Jonathan.

Description

xvi, 612 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

A comprehensive analysis of Soviet policy towards the Jews, with a section of documents accompanying each chapter. Discusses the Soviet theory of nationality, the legal status of Soviet Jewry, the persistence of antisemitism and its exploitation by the regime, the internal religious and cultural life of the Jews (and the restrictions placed on them by the regime), and the oriental Jewish communities. See in particular ch. 3 (p. 83-146), "Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union"; ch. 11 (p. 387-420), "Jews in Soviet Literature"; and ch. 12 (p. 421-438), "The Holocaust and Jewish Resistance as Reflected in Soviet Academic Literature and the Press."

Subject

• Antisemitism > Soviet Union
• Jews > Soviet Union > History > 1917-
• Soviet Union > Ethnic relations

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Published in association with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Contemporary Jewry and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities."
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 575-585.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine derived contents note: Part I. Government ideology and the Jews: 1. The Jewish national question in the Soviet Union; 2. Official Soviet statements on the Jewish question; Part II. Jews as victims of Soviet policy: 3. Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union; 4. The campaigns against 'Jewish nationalism' and 'cosmopolitanism'; 5. Jews on trial in the Soviet Union; Part III. The Zionist issue: 6. The Soviet regime and Zionism; Part IV. Jews and the Jewish people in Soviet society: 7. Jewish culture in the Soviet Union; 8. The Jewish religion in the Soviet Union; 9. Jews in Soviet government; 10. The Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan; Part V. The Jewish experience as mirrored in Soviet publications: 11. Jews in Soviet literature; 12. The Holocaust and Jewish resistance as reflected in Soviet academic literature and the press; Part IV. A separate development: 13. The Oriental Jews of the Soviet Union.

ISBN

0521247136 :

LCCN

^^^83018900^

OCLC

• 9919614
• SCSB-12060523

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library