Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk

List of Figures

Figures 1. map of the Jewish pale of Settlement, ca. 1900. 18 2. distribution of shoes to children of Jewish homes by the Joint distribution committee, minsk, ca. 1923. 33 3. map of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist republic (BSSr), 1926–39. 36 4. on nemiga Street, 1923. 42 5. The minsk central train Station, 1930s. 87 6. At a parade celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, minsk, 1927. 88 7. physics class in Yiddish at the Jewish section of the unified professional School, minsk, 1928–29. 92 8. At a kosher market stand, minsk, 1924. 126 9. “my wife’s aunt came and carried out the bris. of course the father isn’t too happy about this.” Oktyabr, April 17, 1927. 139 10. Students of the Jewish pedagogical training college learning to shoot, minsk, 1925. 164 11. View of lenin Street, from Freedom Square to Sovetskaia Street, 1930s. 178 12. Belorussian State Jewish Theater, 1930s. 182 13. detail of the Belorussian State Jewish Theater. performance poster featuring Sholem Aleichem’s Motl Peysi dem Khazns (motl, the cantor’s son). 183 14. From Avrom Goldfadn’s play The Witch, staged by the Belorussian State Jewish Theater in 1939. 184 ...