Jewish Lives Under Communism: New Perspectives Capkov Katerina
Jewish Lives Under Communism: New Perspectives Capkov Katerina This volume provides new, groundbreaking views of Jewish life in various countries of the pro-Soviet bloc from the end of the Second…
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Jewish Lives Under Communism: New Perspectives Capkov Katerina
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 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 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 examination of Jewish history from a transnational vantage point challenges a dominant strand in history writing today, by showing