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ISBN: 9780062318985 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, NY Harper Collins Publishers
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Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson --- Rebbe --- Yechidus --- Judaism --- seven virtues --- work ethic --- journalism --- women --- Reform Jews --- Conservative Jews --- Judaism and modernity --- Unites States --- Menorahs --- Israel --- Soviet Jewry --- Russian Jews --- Aliyah --- Messianism --- the Messiah
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ISBN: 9780674275744 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, MA
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A close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity. The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the Jewish community of the former tsarist empire. In particular, the Bolshevik government eliminated the requirement that most Jews reside in the Pale of Settlement in what had been Russia’s western borderlands. Many Jews quickly exited the shtetls, seeking prospects elsewhere. Some left for bigger cities, others for Europe, America, or Palestine. Thousands tried their luck in the newly established Jewish Autonomous Region in the Far East, where urban merchants would become tillers of the soil. For these Jews, Soviet modernity meant freedom, the possibility of the new, and the pressure to discard old ways of life. This ambivalence was embodied in the Soviet Jew—not just a descriptive demographic term but a novel cultural figure. In insightful readings of Yiddish and Russian literature, films, and reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds characters traversing space and history and carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost Jewish world. There is the Siberian settler of Viktor Fink’s Jews in the Taiga, the folkloric trickster of Isaac Babel, and the fragmented, bickering family of Moyshe Kulbak’s The Zemlenyaners, whose insular lives are disrupted by the march of technological, political, and social change. There is the collector of ethnographic tidbits, the pogrom survivor, the émigré who repatriates to the USSR. Senderovich urges us to see the Soviet Jew anew, as not only a minority but also a particular kind of liminal being. How the Soviet Jew Was Made emerges as a profound meditation on culture and identity in a shifting landscape.
Jews in literature. --- Jews in motion pictures. --- Jews in popular culture --- Jews --- Russian literature --- Wandering Jew in literature. --- Yiddish literature --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. --- Jewish literature --- Popular culture --- Motion pictures --- History. --- Jewish authors --- Birobidzhan. --- Bolshevik Revolution. --- Cinema. --- David Bergelson. --- Dovid Bergelson. --- Isaac Babel. --- Jewish Culture. --- Jews in the Soviet Union. --- Literature. --- Moyshe Kulbak. --- Pogroms. --- Russian Jewish. --- Shtetl. --- Soviet Jewry. --- Soviet Yiddish. --- Soviet. --- Stalin. --- Wandering Jew. --- Yiddish.
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ISBN: 1400814227 Year: 2000 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton University Press,
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"The politics of acculturation, the process by which Jews championed unpopular social causes to ease their adaptation to American life, established them as the guardians of liberal America. But, according to Dollinger, it also erected barriers to Jewish liberal success. Faced with a conflict between liberal politics and their own acculturation, Jews almost always chose the latter. Few Jewish leaders, for example, condemned the wartime internment of Japanese Americans, and most southern Jews refused to join their northern co-religionists in public civil rights protests. When liberals advocated race-based affirmative action programs and busing to desegregate public schools, most Jews dissented. In chronicling the successes, limits, and failures of Jewish liberalism, Dollinger offers a nuanced yet wide-ranging political history, one intended for liberal activists, conservatives curious about the creation of neo-conservatism, and anyone interested in Jewish communal life."--Jacket.
Liberalisme --- Juifs --- Histoire --- Politique et gouvernement --- AFL (American Federation of Labor). --- American Civil Liberties Union. --- American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry. --- American Jewish Labor Council. --- American Palestine Committee. --- Arent, Albert E. --- Bakke case. --- Ben-Gurion, David. --- Black Muslim. --- Board of Rabbis (New York). --- Brown, Josephine. --- Carmichael, Stokely. --- Columbus Platform. --- Democratic party. --- Edelstein, Nathan. --- Executive Order 8802. --- Flaherty Bill (HR 5454). --- Forster, Arnold. --- General Jewish Council. --- German-American Jews. --- Grier, George and Eunice. --- Hebrew Union College. --- Hirabayashi case. --- Hopkins, Harry. --- Israel Emergency Fund. --- Jackson, Mississippi. --- Jewish Federation Council. --- Jewish Rights Council. --- Kaplan, Mordechai. --- Kaufman, Menaham. --- Korematsu case. --- Levin, Arthur. --- Lindbergh, Charles. --- Lippmann, Walter. --- Marshall Plan. --- National Brotherhood Week. --- Nye, Gerald. --- Pittsburgh Platform. --- Protestant church. --- Reagan, Ronald. --- affirmative action. --- civil libertarianism. --- civil rights movement. --- community chests. --- displaced persons. --- enlightenment (European). --- freedom bus. --- immigration reform. --- internment. --- isolationism. --- neo-conservatism.
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