Becoming Post-Communist

Jews And The New Political Cultures Of Russia And Eastern Europe

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-768721-5 (ISBN)

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The closing decade of the 20th century witnessed dramatic upheavals across landscapes that had, until 1939, housed most of the world's Jewish population: the overturning of the East European Communist governments and the fall of the USSR, accompanied by a major Jewish emigration movement. The legacy of the Jewish presence in those countries, and the ways in which it became enmeshed in the quest by people of the region--Jews and non-Jews alike--to secure their future, highlights fundamental issues about the politics of memory, national identity, and the relative stability of regimes in the region.

If those questions were important even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, understanding their implications now seems even more crucial. In a field fraught with conflicting narratives, the challenges of social and political reconstruction are primary concerns for peoples and governments. The experts contributing to this volume apply interdisciplinary approaches to analyze and interpret a multiplicity of post-communist social realities and aid our understanding of recent events.

Eli Lederhendler is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds the Stephen S. Wise Chair in American Jewish History and Institutions and chairs the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry. He has published widely on modern European and American Jewish history.

Symposium

Becoming Post-Communist: Jews and the New Political Cultures of Russia and Eastern Europe

Eli Lederhendler, Introduction: Jews, Communism and Post-Communism: Short and Long-term Aftereffects

Jelena Subotic, Historical Memory and Antisemitism in Post-Communist East Central Europe

Jonathan Zisook, The Politics of Holocaust Memory in Central and Eastern Europe: Contemporary Poland as a Comparative Case Study

András Kovács, Jewish Revival in Post-Communist Hungary: Expectations and Reality

Marcin Wodzinski, Prospects for Jewish Studies in Poland: An Update for a New Decade

Vladimir Levin, Jewish Cultural Heritage in the USSR and after Its Collapse

Mark Tolts, Russian Jewry in the Post-Soviet Era: Socio-Demographic Transformation

Semion Goldin, Becoming Jews: The Petersburg Jewish University in the 1990s

Essay

Janiv Stamberger, Bridging the Divide: Philanthropy as an Intersection Point in Belgian Jewish Society during the Interwar Period

Review Essay

Shulamit Volkov, Antisemitism in Context: Three Recent Volumes

Book Reviews (arranged by subject)

Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide

Kiril Feferman, If we had wings we would fly to you: A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction, 1941-42, Eliyana R. Adler

Sol Goldberg, Scott Ury, and Kalman Weiser (eds.), Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism, Shulamit Volkov

Abigail Green and Simon Levis Sullam (eds.), Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: A Global History, Shulamit Volkov

Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and Markus Zisselberger (eds.), The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes, Erez Pery

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan and Wolf Gruner (eds.), Resisting Persecution: Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust, David Silberklang

Scott Ury and Guy Miron (eds.), Antishemiyut: bein musag histori lesiah tziburi (Antisemitism: Historical Concept, Public Discourse), Shulamit Volkov

Cultural Studies, Literature, and Religion

Steven E. Aschheim, Fragile Spaces: Forays into Jewish Memory, European History, and Complex Identities, Jeffrey A. Grossman

Manuela Consonni and Vivian Liska (eds.), Sartre, Jews, and the Other: Rethinking Antisemitism, Race, and Gender, Norman J.W. Goda

Dina Danon, The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History, Esra Almas

Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa, The Memory Work of Jewish Spain, Martina L. Weisz

Malte Fuhrmann, Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire, Esra Almas

Eran Kaplan, Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen, Liat Steir-Livny

Louis Kaplan, At Wit's End: The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke, Peter Jelavich

James McAuley, The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France, Richard I. Cohen

Mirjam Rajner, Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945, Andrew Wachtel

Diego Rotman, The Yiddish Stage as a Temporary Home: Dzigan and Shumacher's Satirical Theater (1927-1980), trans. Rebecca Wolpe, Vassili Schedrin

Lynne M. Swarts, Gender, Orientalism and the Jewish Nation: Women in the Work of Ephraim Moses Lilien at the German Fin de Siecle, Lauren B. Strauss

Edmund de Waal, Letters to Camondo, Richard I. Cohen

History, Biography, Social and Gender Studies

Barry R. Chiswick, Jews at Work: Their Economic Progress in the American Labor Market, Paul Burstein

Zev Eleff, Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-bound Faith in American Life, Samuel Heilman

Elisabeth Gallas, A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust, trans. Alex Skinner, David E. Fishman

Dvora Hacohen, To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Mira Katzburg-Yungman

Rachel Manekin, The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia, Michael L. Miller

Rafael Medoff, The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust, Stephen J. Whitfield

Michael A. Meyer, Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times, Steven E. Aschheim

Sharon Pardo and Hila Zahavi (eds.), The Jewish Contribution to European Integration, Michael Berkowitz

Joel Perlmann, America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census, Barry R. Chiswick

Anne C. Schenderlein, Germany on Their Minds: German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Their Relationships with Germany, 1938-1988, Ofer Ashkenazi

Harvey Schwartz (ed.), The Jewish Thought and Psychoanalysis Lectures, Shmuel Erlich

Augusto Segre, Stories of Jewish Life: Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876-1985, trans. Steve Siporin, Luisa Levi D'Ancona Modena

Nancy Sinkoff, From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals and the Politics of Jewish History, Jeffrey S. Gurock

Stephen J. Whitfield, Learning on the Left: Political Profiles of Brandeis University, David Ellenson

Steven J. Zipperstein, Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History, Francois Guesnet

Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East

Yuval Evri, Hashivah leAndalus: mahlokot 'al tarbut vezehut yehudit-sefaradit bein 'araviyut le'ivriyut (The Return to Al-Andalus: Disputes over Sephardic Culture and Identity between Arabic and Hebrew), Menachem Klein

Tal Elmaliach, Hakibbutz Ha'artzi, Mapam, and the Demise of the Israeli Labor Movement, trans. Haim Watzman, Yechiam Weitz

Sharon Geva, Haishah mah omeret? Nashim beyisrael bishnot hamedinah harishonot (Women in the State of Israel: The Early Years), Orit Rozin

Walter L. Hixson, Israel's Armor: The Israel Lobby and the First Generation of the Palestine Conflict, Joseph Heller

Nir Kedar, Law and Identity in Israel: A Century of Debate, trans. Haim Watzman, Yehudit Dori Deston

Fredrik Meiton, Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation, Yossi Ben Artzi

Yonatan Mendel, Safah mihutz limkomah: orientalizm, modi'in veha'aravit beyisrael (Language out of Place: Orientalism, Intelligence and Arabic in Israel), Menachem Klein

Rachel Rojanski, Yiddish in Israel: A History, Yaad Biran

Marc Volovici, German as a Jewish Problem: The Language Politics of Jewish Nationalism, Moshe Zimmermann

Note on Editorial Policy

Erscheinungsdatum	13.01.2023
Reihe/Serie	STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY JEWRY
Zusatzinfo	26 b/w figures
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 164 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	0-19-768721-0 / 0197687210
ISBN-13	978-0-19-768721-5 / 9780197687215
Zustand	Neuware