Religion and Jewish identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964
By: Mordechai Altshuler ; translated by Saadya Sternberg
Contributors: Sternberg, Saadya
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Waltham, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781611682717; 9781611682724; 9781611682731
Subjects: Identity; Government policy; Jews; Social conditions; Ethnic relations; History
Work titles: Yahadut ba-makhbesh ha-Sovyeṭi
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I.  From religious leniency to a campaign of oppression; title: 1. Soviet religious policy in the wake of the Nazi invasion, 1941-1948; title: 2. The legalization of congregations and synagogues; title: 3. The formation of prayer groups (minyanim); title: 4. Jewish spiritual needs in the aftermath of the Holocaust; title: 5. Stalin's final years, 1949-1953: persecution and the threat of liquidation; title: 6. Public displays of Jewish identity: demonstrations in the Synagogue Square; title: 7. Khrushchev's "thaw," 1954-1959; title: 8. The public campaign against religion; title: Part II: Between the private and the public spheres; title: 9. Rabbis and the congregational establishment; title: 10. Cantors for hire; title: 11. Financing religious activities; title: 12. Religious studies and the Moscow Yeshiva, 1957; title: 13. Kosher slaughter (shechita) and matzah baking; title: 14. Holiday observance in the private sphere; title: 15. Charity and the Jewish needy; title: 16. Ritual baths and circumcision; title: 17. Cemeteries, Holocaust memorials, and burial societies; title: 18. The attitude of world Jewry and Israel to Judaism in the USSR.