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This volume provides new, groundbreaking views of Jewish life in
various countries of the pro-Soviet bloc from the end of the Second
World War until the collapse of Communism in late 1989. The
authors, twelve leading historians and anthropologists from Europe,
Israel and the United States, look at the experience of Jews under
Communism by digging beyond formal state policy and instead
examining the ways in which Jews creatively
seized opportunities to develop and express their identities,
religious and secular, even under great duress. The volume shifts
the focus from Jews being objects of Communist state policy (and
from anti-Jewish prejudices in Communist societies) to the agency
of Jews and their creativity in Communist Europe after the
Holocaust. The examination of Jewish history from a transnational
vantage point challenges a dominant strand in history writing
today, by showing instead the wide variety of Jewish
experiences in law, traditions and institutional frameworks as
conceived from one Communist country to another and even within a
single country, such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East
Germany, and the Soviet Union. By focusing on networks across
east-central Europe and beyond and on the forms of identity open to
Jews in this important period, the volume begins a crucial
rethinking of social and cultural life under Communist regimes.
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Based on original sources, this important book on the Holocaust
explores regional variations in civilians' attitudes and behavior
toward the Jewish population in Romania and the occupied Soviet
Union. Gentiles' willingness to assist Jews was greater in lands
that had been under Soviet administration during the inter-war
period, while gentiles' willingness to harm Jews occurred more in
lands that had been under Romanian administration during the same
period. While acknowledging the disasters of Communist rule in the
1920s and 1930s, this work shows the effectiveness of Soviet
nationalities policy in the official suppression of antisemitism.
This book offers a corrective to the widespread consensus that
homogenizes gentile responses throughout Eastern Europe, instead
demonstrating that what states did in the interwar period mattered;
relations between social groups were not fixed and destined to
repeat themselves, but rather fluid and susceptible to change over
time.
Based on original sources, this important book on the Holocaust
explores regional variations in civilians' attitudes and behavior
toward the Jewish population in Romania and the occupied Soviet
Union. Gentiles' willingness to assist Jews was greater in lands
that had been under Soviet administration during the inter-war
period, while gentiles' willingness to harm Jews occurred more in
lands that had been under Romanian administration during the same
period. While acknowledging the disasters of Communist rule in the
1920s and 1930s, this work shows the effectiveness of Soviet
nationalities policy in the official suppression of antisemitism.
This book offers a corrective to the widespread consensus that
homogenizes gentile responses throughout Eastern Europe, instead
demonstrating that what states did in the interwar period mattered;
relations between social groups were not fixed and destined to
repeat themselves, but rather fluid and susceptible to change over
time.
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