Jewish life in Belarus
| Titel: | Jewish life in Belarus : the final decade of the Stalin regime, 1944 - 53 / Leonid Smilovitsky |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Budapest : Central European University Press, 2014 |
| Umfang: | XVII, 327 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9633860253 ; 9789633860250 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- List of Abbreviations
- p. vii
- List of Tables
- p. ix
- Preface
- p. xi
- Introduction: Belarusian Jewry Prior to the Revolution and Until World War II
- p. 1
- 1
- The Demography of the Jews of Belarus
- p. 15
- The Resettlement of Jewish Survivors
- p. 15
- Profiles of Jewish Congregations
- p. 22
- 2
- Soviet Policy Toward the Practice of Judaism in the Postwar Period
- p. 31
- Soviet Policy Toward Religion at the End of the War and the Creation of the CARC
- p. 31
- CARC Activity in Belarus
- p. 37
- 3
- The Decline of the Synagogue
- p. 47
- Synagogues in the Ussr in the Postwar Period
- p. 47
- The Destruction and the Re-Allocation of Belarusian Synagogues
- p. 50
- The Registration Procedure for Synagogues
- p. 54
- The Financial Difficulties in Maintaining Jewish Communities
- p. 78
- 4
- Religious Life
- p. 87
- The Sabbath, the Jewish Holidays, and the Problem of Matzot for Passover
- p. 88
- The Shtiebel, the Mikveh, and the Cemetery
- p. 108
- Kashrut, Circumcision, Jewish Weddings, and the Giving of Charity
- p. 137
- Religious Officiants
- p. 159
- 5
- In the Aftermath of the Holocaust
- p. 165
- Commemoration
- p. 165
- Burial Sites and Monuments
- p. 166
- 6
- Cultural Life
- p. 179
- Jewish Literature
- p. 179
- The Yiddish Theater in Mesisk
- p. 186
- The Yiddish Language
- p. 196
- 7
- Jews in the Reconstruction of the Economy and Cultural Life
- p. 199
- In Administration, The Economy, And Science
- p. 199
- In Secondary and Higher Education
- p. 207
- 8
- International Contacts
- p. 211
- Ties With Abroad
- p. 211
- Belarusian Jewry and the Establishment of the State of Israel
- p. 219
- 9
- The Policy of State Anti-Semitism
- p. 227
- State Action Against Judaism and Jewish Culture
- p. 227
- State Action Against Individual Jews
- p. 234
- Rehabilitation
- p. 247
- Conclusion
- p. 257
- Appendix 1
- Documents
- p. 265
- Appendix 2
- Tables
- p. 285
- Glossary
- p. 295
- Bibliography
- p. 305
- Index
- p. 323
