Revolution Repression And Revival

Preface

Introduction
Yaacov Ro’i

Jews And The Soviet Regime: Encounters And Interactions

The “Jewish Battalions” In The Red Army
Oleg Budnitskii
Zionism In The Early Soviet State: Between Legality And Persecution
Ziva Galili
Jewish Agricultural Settlement In The Interwar Soviet Union: The Black Sea Littoral
Jonathan Dekel-Chen
The Struggle For Survival In The Belorussian Shtetl In The 1920s And 1930s
Arkadii Zeltser
The Jews Of A Soviet Metropolis In The Interwar Period: The Case Of Leningrad
Michael Beizer
Social Trends Among Jews In The Post-Stalin Years
Samuel Barnai

Antisemitism In War And Peace

Jewish Refugees And Evacuees Under Soviet Rule And German Occupation: The North Caucasus
Kiril Feferman
The Genesis Of Establishment Anti-Semitism In The USSR: The Black Years, 1948-1953
Gennadii Kostyrchenko
Attitudes Towards Jews In Post-Soviet Russia And The Problem Of Anti-Semitism
Lev Gudkov

Reconstructing Jewish Communities In The USSR And Its Successor States

The Jewish National Movement And The Struggle For Community In The Late Soviet Period
Vladimir Khanin
The Problematics Of Jewish Community Development In Contemporary Russia
Theodore Friedgut
Putin & The Jewish Oligarchs: Prejudice Or Politics?
Marshall Goldman
Major Trends In Post-Soviet Jewish Demography, 1989-2004
Mark Tolts
The Demography Of Post-Soviet Jewry In Its Global And Local Contexts
Sergio DellaPergola

The New Russian-Jewish Diaspora: Reception And Adaptation

The “Russian” Aliya In Israel: Community And Identity In The Second Decade
Elazar Leshem
Immigrants From The Former Soviet Union In The Israeli Population And Labor Force
Moshe Sicron
Looking Into The Future
Zvi Gitelman

Additional Info
In less than a century, Jews in Russia have survived two world wars, revolution, political and economic turmoil, and persecution by both Nazis and Soviets. Yet they have managed not only to survive, but also transform themselves and emerge as a highly creative, educated entity that has transplanted itself into other countries.

Revolution, Repression and Revival: The Soviet Jewish Experience enhances our understanding of the Russian Jewish past by bringing together some of the latest thinking by the leading scholars from the former Soviet Union, Israel and the United States. The book explains the contradictions, ambiguities and anomalies of the Russian Jewish story and helps us understand one of the most complex and unsettled chapters in modern Jewish history.

The Soviet Jewish story has had many fits and starts as it transfers from one chapter of Soviet history to another and eventually, from one country to another. Some believe that the chapter of Russian Jewry is coming to a close. Whatever the future of Russian Jewry may be, it has a rich, turbulent past. Revolution, Repression and Revival sheds new light on the past, illustrating the complexities of the present, and gives needed insights into the likely future