Over ten years ago, Benjamin Fain, a physicist now living in Tel
Aviv, attempted to hold a conference on Jewish culture in Moscow,
an effort that was foiled by the KGB. Many of the participants were
eventually able to flee, most emigrating to Israel. In this book,
these distinguished scholars and others from around the world
present their personal and professional views of Jewish culture in
the Soviet Union.
The book explores a wide range of topics, including underground
literature, religious revival, and the rise of a national Jewish
consciousness. Some writers claim that the refuseniks are not the
leaders of the Soviet Jews but rather an isolated minority, with
most Jews being assimilated, acculturated, and uninterested in
fleeing. Other essayists look at the ambivalent role traditionally
played by the Soviet Union in both allowing some forms of cultural
expression and suppressing any efforts at individual religious
practice. Others explore the revival of Jewish culture as instanced
by underground teaching of Hebrew. A major debate involves the
Nature of Jewish emigration, whether the Jews will go to Israel or
to America.
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