04128cam a2200613 a 4500 22290 22290 780288958 OCoLC 20190521144948.0 120309s2012 nyua b 001 0 eng 2012010131 016090986 Uk 9781107023284 (hardback) 1107023289 (hardback) 9781107608733 (paperback) 1107608732 (paperback) (OCoLC)780288958 (OCoLC)814372562 DLC eng DLC YDX UKMGB BTCTA BDX YDXCP OCLCO BWX CUT IUL DEBBG COO NYP pcc NYPP DS134.86 .G58 2012 305.892/4047 23 POL040020 bisacsh 7,41 ssgn Gitelman, Zvi Y. Jewish identities in postcommunist Russia and Ukraine : an uncertain ethnicity / Zvi Gitelman. Jewish identity in postcommunist Russia and Ukraine. Jewish identity in postcommunist Russia and Ukraine. New York : Cambridge University Press, c2012. x, 372 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- 1. Ethnicity and identity -- 2. The evolution of Jewish identities -- 3. Soviet policies and the Jewish nationality -- 4. Constructing Jewishness in Russia and Ukraine -- 5. Judaism and Jewishness: religion and ethnicity in Russia and Ukraine -- 6. Becoming Soviet Jews: friendship patterns -- 7. Acting Jewish: Jewsih collectivities or communities -- 8. Anti-semitism and Jewish identity -- 9. Identity, Israel, and immigration -- 10. Ethnicity and marriage -- 11. Polities, affect, affiliation, and alienation -- Conclusion. "This book examines in depth post-Soviet Jews' attitudes toward religion, intermarriage, emigration, anti-Semitism and rebuilding Jewish life"-- "Things did not turn out as they were supposed to. Ethnic groups were supposed to disappear. Marxists, western liberals and social scientists agreed on that for different reasons. For Marxists, the inevitable demise of capitalism would do it. Others banked on economic development and "modernization" to rendered ethnicity and other "traditional" categories irrelevant. Many intellectuals and statesmen believed that the era of ethnicity and nationalism, which had brought such violence and bloodshed to the mankind, would soon be superseded by a rational and scientific temper in the world. After the Second World War nationalism had been sufficiently discredited so that all expressions of ethnicity would be looked at askance. Yet, ethnicity persists and is one of the fundamental cleavages in many European, Asian and African societies, as well in parts of the Americas. As the example of Yugoslavia shows, national or ethnic hatreds can still be the basis for wars, the dismemberment of states, and the killing of one's neighbors, even in a region which suffered so much from ethnic wars just half a century earlier. After discussing ethnicity, we shall return to its predicted demise and why it has persisted"-- Jews Russia Identity. Jews Ukraine Identity. Jews Russia Politics and government 20th century. Jews Russia Social conditions 20th century. Jews Russia Politics and government 21st century. Jews Russia Social conditions 21st century. Jews Ukraine Politics and government 20th century. Jews Ukraine Social conditions 20th century. Jews Ukraine Politics and government 21st century. Jews Ukraine Social conditions 21st century. Russia Ethnic relations. Ukraine Ethnic relations. sgr CATRL MARS DS134.86 lcc BOOK DS 134.86 .G58 2012 .b19725648x m 8528 *PXW 12-1895 33433106989258 maf32 - 002 33 1 CATRL/sgr 0 0 lcc 0 0 Books AUA.1 AUA.1 GS 2019-05-21 Library of the Year Awards 2018 15.00 AUA25049 0 DS 134.86 .G58 2012 AUA25049 2019-05-21 00:00:00 15.00 2019-05-21 BOOK