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List of Tables Table 1.1. Jewish population in the BSSR as of January 1, 1939. 17 Table 1.2. Jewish population in the BSSR as of January 1, 1959. 18 Table 1.3. Jewish population in rural areas of the BSSR in 1939 and 1959. 18 Table 1.4. Jewish population in Belarus by age and gender in 1959. 20 Table 1.5. Age patterns of observant Jews in four towns in the BSSR, 1946–53 (in %). 26 Table 1.6. Gender patterns of observant Jews in four towns in the BSSR, 1946–53 (in %). 26 Table 3.1. Number of synagogues in the USSR on January 1, 1949. 47 Table 3.2. Officially registered synagogues in the USSR in 1952. 49 Table 4.1. Participation in Passover services at the synagogues of Minsk and Kalinkovichi (1950–53, approximate numbers). 98 Table 7.1. The ethnic composition of the BSSR leadership in 1946–49. 200 Table 7.2. The ethnic composition of the Communist Party of Belarus in 1941–45. 200 Table 7.3. The ethnic composition of engineering personnel in the BSSR in 1946 and 1949 (in %). 201 x List of Tables Table 7.4. Jews in leading positions in the Belarusian SSR in 1944–50 (in %). 204 Table 7.5. The ethnic composition of scientists and auxiliary personnel of the BSSR Academy of Sciences in 1948. 206 Table 7.6. The ethnic composition of lecturers and professors in the institutions of higher education of the BSSR in the 1946–47 academic year. 208 Table 7.7. The ethnic composition of the students in the institutions of higher learning in the BSSR in 1947–48. 209 Table 9.1. The ethnic and social breakdown of people taken into custody in the Belarusian SSR, 1944–50. 253 Table 9.2. Rehabilitation of people convicted in Belarus for “counter-revolutionary” crimes, 1953–55. 254 ...

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