Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk

Table of Contents

contents list of Figures viii Acknowledgments ix introduction 1 1 Historical profile of an eastern european Jewish city 13 2 red Star on the Jewish Street 31 3 entangled loyalties: The Bund, the evsektsiia, and the creation of a “new” Jewish political culture 51 4 Soviet minsk: The capital of Yiddish 81 5 Behavior unbecoming a communist: Jewish religious practice in a Soviet capital 112 6 Housewives, mothers, and workers: roles and representations of Jewish women in times of revolution 145 7 Jewish ordinary life in the midst of extraordinary purges: 1934–1939 176 conclusion 211 notes 217 Selected Bibliography 253 index 269 ...