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- Jewish Life in Belarus: The Final Decade of the Stalin Regime, 1944-1953
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Central European University Press
summary
Jewish life in Belarus in the years after World War II was long an enigma. Officially it was held to be as being non-existent, and in the ideological atmosphere of the time research on the matter was impossible. Jewish community life had been wiped out by the Nazis, and information on its revival was suppressed by the communists. For more than half a century the truth about Jewish life during this period was sealed in inaccessible archives. The Jews of Belarus preferred to keep silent rather than expose themselves to the animosity of the authorities. Although the fate of Belarusian Jews before and during the war has now been amply studied, this book is one of the first attempts to study Jewish life in Belarus during the last decade of Stalin's rule.
In addition to archival materials, the present research is based on a questionnaire submitted to former residents of Belarus in Israel, as well as information from periodicals, collections of documents, statistical reports and monographs.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Table of Contents
- pp. v-vi
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. vii-viii
- List of Tables
- pp. ix-x
- 3 The Decline of the Synagogue
- pp. 47-86
- 4 Religious Life
- pp. 87-164
- 5 In the Aftermath of the Holocaust
- pp. 165-178
- 6 Cultural Life
- pp. 179-198
- 8 International Contacts
- pp. 211-226
- 9 The Policy of State Anti-Semitism
- pp. 227-256
- Conclusion
- pp. 257-264
- Appendix 1: Documents
- pp. 265-284
- Appendix 2: Tables
- pp. 285-294
- Bibliography
- pp. 305-322
Additional Information
ISBN
9789633860267
Related ISBN(s)
9789633860250
MARC Record
OCLC
886540339
Pages
346
Launched on MUSE
2014-08-27
Language
English
Open Access
No