Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 by Anna Shternshis

Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939

Anna Shternshis

280 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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Kosher pork--an oxymoron? Anna Shternshis's fascinating study traces the creation of a Soviet Jewish identity that disassociated Jewishness from Judaism. The cultural transformation of Soviet Jews between 1917 and 1941 was one of the most ambitiou...

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