Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk

Index

269 index Agursky, Shmuel, 193: Afn visnshaftlekhn front (on the scholarly front), 103; arrest in 1937, 193; idealization of the Bund, 79; new “Beilis trial”, 125; Veker (The alarm) 61; wife’s plea to Stalin, 173; women’s department of the communist party, 155–56 Akselrod, Yona: everyday life, 181–85 Akselrod, zelig: nationalist label, 200 Aleichem, Sholem, 64–65, 69: celebrations of, 64–65, 89–90, 182, 184; interpretations of work, 46; Kasrilevke, 41 All-Belorussian radio committee, 184–85 All-Belorussian union of poets and writers, 104 All-union Association of proletarian writers, 104 anti-Jewish violence: polish occupation of minsk, 28; reports, 208–9 anti-Semitism: poland, 204–6, 209–10; violence reports, 208–209 Arbeter bletl (The worker’s leaflet), 22 Arbeter Ring (workmen’s circle), 22 Artisans’ House of prayer, 114 Atlas of Yiddish Dialects, 101 Babel, isaac, “karl-Yankl,” 137–39 Basok, zalman Y., arrest of, 34 Belarus national republic, 25 Belgoset (Belorussian State Jewish Theater), 73–74, 104, 182–83: damesek, A., 192; Hirsh Lekert, 68–69; kulbak, moshe, 194; minsk, return to, 215; moscow stages and, 74; rafalskii, mikhail, 193; rapoport case, 129 Belorusizatsiia, 82: Yidishizatsiia, 84 Belorussia: Historical commission of Belorussia, 105–6; marxism, 53; Yiddish as state language, 82 Belorussia, 104 Belorussian: All-republican language, 197; language , 84–89; nationalists, polish minsk residents , 25; state language, 84 Belorussian Academy of Science, 102–3 Belorussian republic, minsk as hub, 71–72 Belorussian Social-democratic party, 83 Belorussian State Jewish Theater. See Belgoset Belorussian State university, 44–45, 99–100; Gorky Belorussian Higher pedagogical institute, 100; Hebrew language, 45; Jewish department, 73; Jewish department women enrollment, 169–70; zionist youth groups, 45–46 Belorussianization, 82: Bronshteyn, Yasha, 105; Jewish pedagogical college hiring, 85; Jewish scholarly output, 108; kharik, izzy, 105; literary themes and, 103–4; resistance, 84; resistance, warnings against, 86; russian and 98; workplace resistance, 85; Yiddishization and, 84, 92 Belorussian-Jewish identity, 106–7; creation, 103–9 blood libels, 205–6 Bolshevik regime, minsk reestablishment, 29–30 Bolshevik revolution: minsk borders, 21; rejzen, Sore, 29; ukraine, 30 Bolsheviks: Belorussian council, 25; minsk, 5; zionism and, 26 Bolshevization, Der Veker and, 62 books: Hebrew language, 46–47; printing, 20–21; zionist, 47 bourgeois institutions, sovietization and, 32–33 Boytre (kulbak), 105 Brasler, Asia, family, 189–90 Breinin, reuben, religious practice, 113 Bronislaw Grosser library, 58 Bronislaw Grosser workers’ club. See Grosser club Bronshteyn, Yasha, 194: Bolshevik revolution anniversary celebration, 185; institute for proletarian Jewish culture, 103; purges and, 195; Soviet Yiddish literature, 200; Sovetishe Vaysrusland, 105; trotskyite accusation, 194 BSSr (Belorussian Soviet Socialist republic), 2 Bund, preservation of name, 58–59 the Bund: allegiances, 51–53; Bronislaw Grosser workers’ club, 57; Bundist institutions, 58–60; cultural strategies and, 69–76; Der Veker and, 61–62; evsektsiia and, 52; founding celebration, 56; Frumkin, ester, 53; Jewish labor movement and, 52; Jewish separateness, 58; left Bundists, 57; library relocation, 59; mensheviks and, 52; merge with cpB, 32, 55–56; neutralist position on national question, 58; political strategies and, 69–76; right Bundists, 57; size in early twentieth century, 52; women in, 148; Yiddish language and culture, 69–70 Bundism accusations, 78; Agursky, Shmuel, 193; Great terror, 177, 191–93 270 | index central Jewish workers’ club, 58–60. See also Grosser club cheka, 4 cherviakov, A.n., 176 circumcision observance, 113; accidental death of newborn, 140; Babel, isaac (“karl-Yankl”), 137– 39; comrade Gorlin, 135–37; deferring, 140; family and, 142–43; gender roles, 142; Jewish communists , 133–34, 137–39, 139–42; Jewish identity and, 142–43; katz, Jacob, 134; restrictions, 134–35; school admittance and, 133 commission for the requisition of church treasures of the minsk region, 114 communism: proverki (verifications), 160; women ’s education, 149; women’s liberation, 148–49 communist Jewish elite, ancien régime Jews and, 113 communist party. See also cpB (communist party of Belorussia): Bund, name preservation, 58–59; Bund merge, 32; elvoda factory review of party members, 141; growth under Stalin, 141; Jewish members, 3; women’s membership, 166–69 communist schools, 130–33 comrade Gorlin case, 135–37 confiscation of property, synagogues, 114–16, 117 counterrevolutionaries, 77–79; Hirsh Lekert, 192; women as, 159 courtrooms, Yiddish and, 90 cpB (communist party of Belorussia): Bund merge, 55–56; evsektsiia as administrative body, 56; Grinberg, Solomon, cpB application, 3; liquidation of political parties and factions, 55; minsk Bundist leadership and, 53–54; women’s department, 151–53 cultural revolution, 51; religion, 117; women, 161–62 cultural sphere...