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Additional authors

1. Mazal Holocaust Collection. TxSaTAM
2. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
3. Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)

Description

1. xv, 336 pages : illustrations, maps; 32 cm

Summary

1. A photographic history, based mainly on the New York YIVO Institute archives. Surveys Jewish life in Russia, focusing on the pogroms of 1881-82 and 1905 and their effects (e.g. the Jewish revolutionary movements, the Bund, and Zionism), and the Beilis trial of 1911. Pp. 96-108 discuss the ambivalent Jewish reaction to the Bolshevik Revolution. Although the Bolsheviks were hostile to Jewish concerns, the new regime offered great opportunities to literate Jews, while the Whites and the Ukrainians were responsible for pogroms and exploited antisemitism to rally anti-Bolshevik support. Ch. 4 (pp. 175-223) describes the fate of the Jews of the USSR during the Holocaust, Jewish resistance, participation in the partisan movement and in the Red Army. Also surveys Stalin's anti-Jewish campaign from 1948 on, the Doctor's Plot, Soviet anti-Zionism, the emigration movement, and prospects for Jewish life in the USSR.

Subject

1. Jews
2. Illustrated works
3. History
4. 1800-1899
5. Ethnic relations
6. Russia > Ethnic relations
7. Jews > Russia > Pictorial works
8. Jews > Russia > History > 19th century
9. Soviet Union > Ethnic relations
10. Jews > Soviet Union > Pictorial works
11. Jews > Soviet Union > History

Genre/Form

1. History.
2. Illustrated works.

Contents

1. Creativity versus repression: the Jews in Russia, 1881-1917 -- Revolution and the ambiguities of liberation -- Reaching for utopia: building socialism and a new Jewish culture -- The holocaust -- The black years and the gray, 1948-1967 -- Soviet Jews, 1967-1987: to reform, conform, or leave? -- The "other" Jews of the USSR: Georgian, Central Asian, and Mountain Jews -- A century of ambivalence.

Call number

1. DS134.82

Note

1. Photographs from the collections of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research and private owners, exhibited at the Jewish Museum in New York in Feb. 1988.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-332) and indexes.

Author

1. Gitelman, Zvi Y., author.

Title

1. A century of ambivalence : the Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the present / Zvi Gitelman.

Publisher

1. New York : Schocken Books : Distributed by Pantheon Books, [1988]

Edition

1. 1st ed.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-332) and indexes.

Chronological term

1. 1800-1899

Added author

1. Mazal Holocaust Collection. TxSaTAM
2. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
3. Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)

Other form:

1. Online version: Gitelman, Zvi Y. Century of ambivalence. 1st ed. New York : Schocken Books : Distributed by Pantheon Books, ©1988 (OCoLC)572816240
2. Online version: Gitelman, Zvi Y. Century of ambivalence. 1st ed. New York : Schocken Books : Distributed by Pantheon Books, ©1988 (OCoLC)608834632

LCCN

1. 87009822

ISBN

1. 0805240349
2. 9780805240344

Research call number

1. *R-JWS DS134.82 .G58 1988