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, c1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
• Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)

Description

xv, 336 p. : ill.; 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.

Subject

• Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
• Geschichte 1881-1917
• 1800-1899
• Geschichte 1881-1917
• Jews > Soviet Union > History
• Jews > Soviet Union > Pictorial works
• Jews > Russia > History > 19th century
• Jews > Russia > Pictorial works
• Soviet Union > Ethnic relations
• Soviet Union > Pictorial works
• Russia > Ethnic relations

Genre/Form

• History
• Pictorial works

Note

• Photographs from the collection of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, exhibited at the Jewish Museum in New York in Feb. 1988.
• Companion vol. to: Image before my eyes / Lucjan Dobroszycki and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. 1977.
• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 326-332.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0805240349

LCCN

^^^87009822^

OCLC

• 15792452
• SCSB-11910726

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library