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Located on the Dnieper River at the crossroads of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, the town of Rechitsa had one of the oldest Jewish communities in Belarus, dating back to medieval times. By the late nineteenth century, Jews constituted more than half of the town's population. Rich in tradition, Jewish Rechitsa was part of a distinctive Lithuanian-Belorussian culture full of stories, vibrant personalities, achievement, and epic struggle that was gradually lost through migration, pogroms, and the Holocaust. Now, in Albert Kaganovitch's meticulously researched history, this forgotten Jewish world is brought to life. Based on extensive use of Soviet and Israeli archives, interviews, memoirs, and secondary sources, Kaganovitch's acclaimed work, originally published in Russian, is presented here in a significantly revised English translation by the author. Details of demographic, social, economic, and cultural changes in Rechitsa's evolution, presented over the sweep of centuries, reveal a microcosm of daily Jewish life in Rechitsa and similar communities. Kaganovitch looks closely at such critical developments as the spread of Chabad Hasidism, the impact of multiple political transformations and global changes, and the mass murder of Rechitsa's remaining Jews by the German army in November to December 1941. Kaganovitch also documents the evolving status of Jews in the postwar era, starting with the reconstitution of a Jewish community in Rechitsa not long after liberation in 1943 and continuing with economic, social, and political trends under Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev, and finally emigration from post-Soviet Belarus. The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa is a major achievement. Winner, Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Scholarship, Koffler Centre of the Arts.

Jews --- History. --- Rėchytsa (Belarus)

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Mir (Belarus) --- History. --- Ethnic relations. --- Religion.

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Pauline Wengeroff, the only nineteenth-century Russian Jewish woman to publish a memoir, sets out to illuminate the "cultural history of the Jews of Russia" in the period of Jewish "enlightenment," when traditional culture began to disintegrate and Jews became modern. Wengeroff, a gifted writer and astute social observer, paints a rich portrait of both traditional and modernizing Jewish societies in an extraordinary way, focusing on women and the family and offering a gendered account (and indictment) of assimilation. In Volume 1 of Memoirs of a Grandmother, Wengeroff depicts traditional Jewish society, including the religious culture of women, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I, who wished "his" Jews to be acculturated to modern Russian life.

Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Social life and customs. --- Wengeroff, Pauline, --- Vengerova, Polina, --- Венгерова, Полина, --- Minsk (Belarus) --- Minsk (Byelorussian S.S.R.) --- Myensk (Belarus) --- Myenyesk (Belarus) --- Mensk (Belarus) --- Mansk (Belarus) --- Мінск (Belarus) --- Минск (Belarus)

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This book is the first in English to explore both Belarus's complicated road to nationhood and to examine in detail its politics and economics since 1991, the nation's first year of true independence. Andrew Wilson focuses particular attention on Aliaksandr Lukashenka's surprising longevity as president, despite human rights abuses and involvement in yet another rigged election in December 2010.Wilson looks at Belarusian history as a series of false starts in the medieval and pre-modern periods, and at the many rival versions of Belarusian identity, culminating with the Soviet Belarusian project and the establishment of Belarus's current borders during World War II. He also addresses Belarus's on-off relationship with Russia, its simultaneous attempts to play a game of balance in the no-man's-land between Russia and the West, and how, paradoxically, Belarus is at last becoming a true nation under the rule of Europe's "last dictator."

Political culture --- Dictatorship --- History --- Lukashenko, Aleksandr, --- Belarus --- Politics and government --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Political cultureHistory.Lukashenko, Aleksandr,Belarus --- BelarusHistory. --- Absolutism --- Autocracy --- Tyranny --- Authoritarianism --- Despotism --- Totalitarianism --- Culture --- Political science --- Loekasjenko, Alexandr --- Лукашенко, Александр, --- Lukashenka, Alyaksandr, --- Lukashenko, A. --- Loukachenko, Alexandre, --- Lukašenko, Aleksandr, --- Lukashenko, Alexander, --- Lukashenko, Alexander Grigoryevich, --- Lukashenko, Aleksandr Grigorʹevich, --- Lukashenka, Ali︠a︡ksandr Hryhoravich, --- Lukashenka, Aleksandr Hrygorevich, --- Лукашенко, Александр Григорьевич, --- Lukaschenko, Alexander --- Diktatur --- Лукашенко, Александр Григорьевич --- Lukashenko, Aleksandr, -- 1954-. --- Political culture -- Belarus -- History.. --- Dictatorship -- Europe -- Case studies.. --- Belarus -- History.. --- Belarus -- Politics and government.. --- Belarus -- Politics and government -- 1991-. --- Political culture - Belarus - History --- Dictatorship - Europe - Case studies --- Lukashenko, Aleksandr, - 1954 --- -Belarus - History --- Belarus - Politics and government --- Belarus - Politics and government - 1991 --- -Political culture --- Internal politics --- International relations. Foreign policy --- anno 1990-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- anno 2010-2019 --- anno 2020-2029 --- -Belarus

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Jewish life in Belarus after World War II was an inaccessible subject - officially regarded as being completely non-existent - and in the ideological atmosphere of the time research into the subject was impossible. Jewish community life had been wiped out by the Nazis, and its unreasonable attempt to come back to life was given short shrift by the communists. For more than half a century the truth about Jewish life during this period was sealed in archives to which researchers had no access. The Jews of Belarus preferred to keep silent rather than expose themselves to the spleen of the authorities. Although the fate of Belarusian Jews before and during the war has lately been amply studied, this book is one of the first attempts to study Jewish life in Belarus during the last decade of Stalin's rule. In addition to archival materials, the present research is based on data collected from a questionnaire submitted to Jews who had been residents of Belarus and are now citizens of Israel, as well as information from periodicals, collections of documents, statistical reports and monographs.

Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- History --- Soviet Union --- Belarus --- Republic of Belarus --- Rėspublika Belarusʹ --- Republic of Byelarusʹ --- Respublika Byelarusʹ --- Byelarus --- République de Bélarus --- República de Belarús --- Republik Belarus --- Weissrussland --- White Russia --- Belorussia --- Belorus --- Biélorussie --- Bielorussia --- Białoruś --- Беларусь --- Рэспубліка Беларусь --- Республика Беларусь --- ベラルーシ --- Berarūshi --- Byelorussian S.S.R. --- Politics and government --- Ethnic relations. --- E-books --- Belarus, Ethnic relations, History, Jewish studies, Jews, Political studies, Religion, Soviet Union.