Revolution, Repression, and Revival: The Soviet Jewish Experience Book

Preface     ix
Introduction   Yaacov Ro'i     1
Jews and the Soviet Regime: Encounters and Reactions
The "Jewish Battalions" in the Red Army   Oleg Budnitsky     15
Zionism in the Early Soviet State: Between Legality and Persecution   Ziva Galili     37
Jewish Agricultural Settlement in the Interwar Period: A Balance Sheet   Jonathan Dekel-Chen     69
The Belorussian Shtetl in the 1920s and 1930s   Arkady Zeltser     91
The Jews of a Soviet Metropolis in the Interwar Period: The Case of Leningrad   Michael Beizer     113
Social Trends among Jews in the Post-Stalin Years   Samuel Barnai     131
Anti-Semitism in War and Peace
Jewish Refugees and Evacuees under Soviet Rule and German Occupation: The North Caucasus   Kiril Feferman     155
The Genesis of Establishment Anti-Semitism in the USSR: The Black Years, 1948-1953   Gennadi Kostyrchenko     179
Attitudes toward Jews in Post-Soviet Russia and the Problem of Anti-Semitism   Lev Gudkov     193
Reconstructing Jewish Communities in the USSR and its Successor States
The Jewish National Movement and the Struggle for Community in the Late Soviet Period   Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin     221
The Problematics of Jewish Community Development inContemporary Russia   Theodore H. Friedgut     239
Putin and the Jewish Oligarchs: Prejudice or Politics?   Marshall I. Goldman     273
Post-Soviet Jewish Demography, 1989-2004   Mark Tolts     283
The Demography of Post-Soviet Jewry: Global and Local Contexts   Sergio DellaPergola     313
The New Russian-Jewish Diaspora: Reception and Adaptation
The Russian Aliya in Israel: Community and Identity in the Second Decade   Elazar Leshem     333
Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in the Israeli Population and Labor Force   Moshe Sicron     361
Looking into the Future   Zvi Gitelman     379
Index     389
About the Contributors     403