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Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine(Updated)
An Uncertain Ethnicity
by Professor Zvi Gitelman, Author: Zvi Gitelman, Zvi Getelman
Paperback, 379 Pages, Published 2012 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-60873-3, ISBN: 1-107-60873-2

"Before the USSR collapsed, ethnic identities were imposed by the state. This book analyzes how and why Jews decided what being Jewish meant to them after the state dissolved and describes the historical evolution of Jewish identities. Surveys of more than 6,000 Jews in the early and late 1990s reveal that Russian and Ukrainian Jews have a deep sense of their Jewishness but are uncertain what it means. They see little connection between ..."






The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 8
Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918-1939
by Deborah Dash Moore, Todd M. Endelman, Zvi Gitelman
Hardcover, 1,392 Pages, Published 2020 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-13552-7, ISBN: 0-300-13552-1

"The eighth volume in a landmark series, this anthology of Jewish culture and civilization encompasses the period between the world wars An anthology of Jewish culture between the world wars, the editors’ selections convey the variety, breadth, and depth of Jewish creativity in those tempestuous decades. Despite—or perhaps because of—external threats, Jews vigorously fought over religion, politics, migration, and their relation to the st ..."






The Emergence Of Modern Jewish Politics(1st Edition)
Bundism And Zionism In Eastern Europe (Russian and East European Studies)
by Zvi Gitelman
Paperback, 286 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6324-0, ISBN: 0-8229-6324-8

"The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics examines the political, social, and cultural dimensions of Zionism and Bundism, the two major political movements among East European Jews during the first half of the twentieth century. While Zionism achieved its primary aim - the founding of a Jewish state - the Jewish Labor Bund has not only practically disappeared, but its ideals of socialism and secular Jewishness based in the diaspora seem t ..."






A Century of Ambivalence(2nd Edition)
The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present (Harriman House Classics)
by Zvi Y. Gitelman, Professor Zvi Gitelman
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2001 by Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21418-8, ISBN: 0-253-21418-1

"Now back in print in a new edition! A Century of Ambivalence The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present Second, Expanded Edition Zvi Gitelman A richly illustrated survey of the Jewish historical experience in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet era. "Anyone with even a passing interest in the history of Russian Jewry will want to own this splendid...book." -Janet Hadda, Los Angeles Times "...a ..."






Religion or Ethnicity?
Jewish Identities in Evolution
by Zvi Gitelman, Yaron Eliav, Gabriele Boccaccini, Miriam Bodian, Steven Nadler, David Fishman, Scott Spector, Todd Endelman, Julian Levinson, Charles Liebman, Yaacov Yadgar, Mark Tessler, Shachar Pinsker, Calvin Goldscheider, Adam Chalom, Professor Zvi Gitelman
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2009 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4451-9, ISBN: 0-8135-4451-3

"Can someone be considered Jewish if he or she never goes to synagogue, doesn't keep kosher, and for whom the only connection to his or her ancestral past is attending an annual Passover seder? In Religion or Ethnicity? sixteen leading scholars trace the evolution of Jewish identity. The book examines Judaism from the Greco-Roman age, through medieval times, modern western and eastern Europe, to today. Jewish identity has been defined a ..."






Religion or Ethnicity?
Jewish Identities in Evolution
by Professor Zvi Gitelman, Zvi Y. Gitelman, Yaron Eliav, Gabriele Boccaccini, Miriam Bodian, Steven Nadler, David Fishman, Scott Spector, Todd Endelman, Julian Levinson, Charles Liebman, Yaacov Yadgar, Mark Tessler, Shachar Pinsker, Calvin Goldscheider, Adam Chalom
Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2009 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4450-2, ISBN: 0-8135-4450-5

"Can someone be considered Jewish if he or she never goes to synagogue, doesn't keep kosher, and for whom the only connection to his or her ancestral past is attending an annual Passover seder? In Religion or Ethnicity? sixteen leading scholars trace the evolution of Jewish identity. The book examines Judaism from the Greco-Roman age, through medieval times, modern western and eastern Europe, to today. Jewish identity has been defined a ..."






Cultures and Nations of Central and Eastern Europe(1st Edition)
Essays in Honor of Roman Szporluk (Monograph Series (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute))
by Zvi Y. Gitelman, Roman Solchanyk, Fiona Hill, Padraic Kenney, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Assya Humesky, Ksenya Kiebuzinski, Michael Flier, Rita Krueger, Hugo Lane, Michal Lesiow, Richard Pipes, Lubomyr A. Hajda, John-Paul Himka, Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak, Audrey Helfant Budding, Walter D. Connor, Steven D. Corrsin, George G. Grabowicz, Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Owen V. Johnson, Edward L. Keenan, Zenon E. Kohut, Assistant Professor Larissa Szporluk, Omeljan Pritsak, Konrad Sadkowski, Ihor Sevcenko, Professor Irina Livezeanu, Antony Polonsky, Teresa Rakowska-Harmstone, Keely Stauter-Halsted, Ronald Grigor Suny, Frank E. Sysyn, Andrzej Walicki, Larry Wolff, William Zimmerman, Roman Szporluk, Irina Livezeanu, Professor Zvi Gitelman, Contributor-Martha Bohachevsky..., Consultant Roman Solchanyk
Paperback, 672 Pages, Published 2001 by Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
ISBN-13: 978-0-916458-93-5, ISBN: 0-916458-93-8

" Written in honor of one of the foremost observers of nationalism and culture in Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together 35 eminent scholars from the United States, Canada, Ukraine, and Poland. Supplemented by a bibliography of the work of Roman Szporluk, these fresh, urgent essays mirror Szporluk's broad and comparativist approach. Topics range from the rise of Ukrainian national consciousness in Galicia, to nation ..."






Stalin's Forgotten Zion(1st Edition)
Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland: An Illustrated History, 1928–1996
by Robert Weinberger, Bradley Berman, Zvi Gitelman
Paperback, 124 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of California Press
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20990-9, ISBN: 0-520-20990-7

"Robert Weinberg and Bradley Berman's carefully documented and extensively illustrated book explores the Soviet government's failed experiment to create a socialist Jewish homeland. In 1934 an area popularly known as Birobidzhan, a sparsely populated region along the Sino-Soviet border some five thousand miles east of Moscow, was designated the national homeland of Soviet Jewry. Establishing the Jewish Autonomous Region was part of the K ..."






Developments in Russian Politics 6(6th Edition)
by Stephen White, Professor Zvi Gitelman, Richard Sakwa
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2005 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3522-1, ISBN: 0-8223-3522-0

"Taking as its starting point the elections of 2000 and 2004, "Developments in Russian Politics 6 "brings together all new, specially commissioned essays by leading experts to provide a wide-ranging assessment of Russian politics under Vladimir Putin. The contributors provide succinct overviews of aspects of contemporary Russia's political landscape, including presidential power, parliamentary politics, elections and voters, political pa ..."






Developments in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics(3rd Edition)
by Stephen White, Alex Pravda, Zvi Gitelman
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1994 by Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1518-6, ISBN: 0-8223-1518-1

"Rev. ed. of: Developments in Soviet and post-Soviet politics. 1992."






Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine
An Uncertain Ethnicity
by Professor Zvi Gitelman, Zvi Getelman, Author: Zvi Gitelman
Hardcover, 379 Pages, Published 2012 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-02328-4, ISBN: 1-107-02328-9

"Before the USSR collapsed, ethnic identities were imposed by the state. This book analyzes how and why Jews decided what being Jewish meant to them after the state dissolved and describes the historical evolution of Jewish identities. Surveys of more than 6,000 Jews in the early and late 1990s reveal that Russian and Ukrainian Jews have a deep sense of their Jewishness but are uncertain what it means. They see little connection between ..."






The New Jewish Diaspora
Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany
by Zvi Gitelman, Mark Tolts, Uzi Rebhun, Marina Sapritsky, Sveta Roberman, Nelly Elias, Julia Lerner, Gur Ofer, Mikhail Krutikov, Adrian Wanner, Olena Bagno-Moldavski, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Hannah Pollin-Galay, Steven J. Gold, Reviewer Anna Shternshis, Elena Nosenko-Shtein, Professor Stephanie Sandler, Professor Yaacov Ro'i, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yaacov Ro'i, Anna Shternshis, Stephanie Sandler, Professor Zvi Gitelman
Paperback, 338 Pages, Published 2016 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-7628-2, ISBN: 0-8135-7628-8

"In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration has made deep marks on the social, cultural, and political terrain of many countries, in particular the United States, Israel, and Ger ..."






Developments in Russian Politics 4(4th Edition)
by Stephen White, Alex Pravda, Zvi White Gitelman, Zvi Gitelman, Professor Zvi Gitelman
Paperback, 324 Pages, Published 1997 by Palgrave
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-69470-1, ISBN: 0-333-69470-8

"Developments in Russian Politics 4 brings together specially commissioned new chapters by leading international scholars in a tightly edited form to provide a systematic and broad-ranging account of government, politics and policy since the fall of Communism in what is still the world's largest state. The book has been completely rewritten for this new edition which focuses more specifically on Russia than its predecessor volumes."






The New Jewish Diaspora
Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany
by Zvi Gitelman
338 Pages, Published 2016 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-7630-5, ISBN: 0-8135-7630-X

"The continental origin of Jews in Israel is defined by the CBS by being born on ( or, sometimes, having immigrated from) a given ... Due to space limitations, this version of my larger work concentrates on a fuller description and analysis in the text and does not include tables ... The former surveys those twenty years of age and older; the latter surveys those fifteen years and older. 12. Dum 1, OCs. 0–2 in the CBS classification ..."






Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine
An Uncertain Ethnicity
by Zvi Gitelman
Published 2012 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-139-78962-2, ISBN: 1-139-78962-7

"TABLE 5.1. Religious Distribution in Russian Federation (percent of the population) 1991 1993 1996 1999 1°02 Believers 22 3 2 3 4 40 44 Unsure 28 28 3 0 3 0 29 Unbelievers 7 3 0 24 22 2o Atheists 3 5 5 6 5 5 Don't know 7 4 6 2 2 Source: Dmitri Furman and Kimmo Kaariainen, “Religioznaya stabilizatsiia: otnosheniya k religii v sovremennoi Rossii, Svobodnaya Mysl, 7, 1533 (2003), 25 , cited in James Warhola and Alex Lehning, “Political ..."






A Century of Ambivalence, Second Expanded Edition
The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present
by Zvi Gitelman
320 Pages, Published 2001 by Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-01373-6, ISBN: 0-253-01373-9

"Lodyzhensky, Naum, 141 Losev, Lev, 113 Loytsker, Khayim, 147 Lubanov, Khayim, 163 Lukashenka, Aleksandr, 222, 248 ... Note, 90 Lutsky, V., 151 Luzhkov, Yuri, 232, 257 Madaisker, Sonia, 138 Makashov, General Albert, 247– 249 Makhno, Nestor, ... Yosl, 78, 81 Mohilever, Samuel, 19 Molotov, Vyacheslav, 101 Moshiakhov, Aaron and Frida, 208 Moshkovich, Grigory, ... 166 Oyslender, Nokhem, 90 Palatnik, Raisa, 154 Paperno, A. Y., 45 Parvus-H ..."






Developments in Soviet Politics
by Stephen White, Alex Pravda, Zvi Gitelman
Hardcover, 310 Pages, Published 1990 by Duke Univ Pr (Tx)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1084-6, ISBN: 0-8223-1084-8

"Written by a team of leading scholars, this book meets the need for an up-to-date account on the political system and policy progress which is amerging and an analysis of the future prospects of the "Gorbachev revolution"."






The New Jewish Diaspora
Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany
by Zvi Gitelman, Mark Tolts, Uzi Rebhun, Marina Sapritsky, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Hannah Pollin-Galay, Steven J. Gold, Olena Bagno-Moldavski, Reviewer Anna Shternshis, Gur Ofer, Sveta Roberman, Elena Nosenko-Shtein, Nelly Elias, Julia Lerner, Professor Stephanie Sandler, Mikhail Krutikov, Adrian Wanner, Professor Yaacov Ro'i, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Professor Zvi Gitelman
Hardcover, 338 Pages, Published 2016 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-7629-9, ISBN: 0-8135-7629-6

"In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration has made deep marks on the social, cultural, and political terrain of many countries, in particular the United States, Israel, and Ger ..."






Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater(1st Edition)
(Jewish Museum)
by Susan Tumarkin Goodman, Professor Zvi Gitelman, Vladislav Ivanov, Professor Jeffrey Veidlinger, Professor Benjamin Harshav, Jeffery Veidlinger, Marc Chagall
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2008 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-11155-2, ISBN: 0-300-11155-X

"A journey into a time of astounding innovation on the stage Shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet Jewish theaters became catalysts for modernist experimentation. Working with avant-garde playwrights, actors, and producers in a new political environment, artists such as Marc Chagall, Natan Altman, Robert Falk, and Aleksandr Tyshler combined Russian folk art with elements of Cubo-Futurism and Constructivism into a bold new style. ..."






Developments in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics(3rd Edition)
by Stephen White, Alex Pravda, Zvi Gitelman, Ann Arbor, Non Stated, Professor Zvi Gitelman
Paperback, 380 Pages, Published 1994 by Palgrave
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-61690-1, ISBN: 0-333-61690-1

"Developments in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics brings together specially commissioned new chapters by leading international scholars in a tightly edited form to provide a systematic and broad-ranging account of government, politics and policy in Russia and the other successor states of the former Soviet Union."



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