Jewish Life in Belarus : : The Final Decade of the Stalin Regime, 1944-1953 / / Leonid Smilovitsky.

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 wa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (346 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Belarusian Jewry Prior to the Revolution and Until World War II
  • Chapter 1 The Demography of the Jews of Belarus
  • Chapter 2 Soviet Policy Toward the Practice of Judaism in the Postwar Period
  • Chapter 3 The Decline of the Synagogue
  • Chapter 4 Religious Life
  • Chapter 5 In the Aftermath of the Holocaust
  • Chapter 6 Cultural Life
  • Chapter 7 Jews in the Reconstruction of the Economy and Cultural Life
  • Chapter 8 International Contacts
  • Chapter 9 The Policy of State Anti-Semitism
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1: Documents
  • Appendix 2: Tables
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index