1st Edition
Jewish Life in Belarus The Final Decade of the Stalin Regime, 1944-1953
By Leonid Smilovitsky
Copyright 2014
346 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Jewish life in Belarus in the years after World War II was long an enigma. Officially it was held to be as being non-existent, and in the ideological atmosphere of the time research on the matter was impossible. Jewish community life had been wiped out by the Nazis, and information on its revival was suppressed by the communists. For more than half a century the truth about Jewish life during... Read more
List of Abbreviations, List of Tables, Preface, Introduction: Belarusian Jewry Prior to the Revolution and Until World War II, 1 The Demography of the Jews of Belarus, 2 Soviet Policy Toward the Practice of Judaism in the Postwar Period, 3 The Decline of the Synagogue, 4 Religious Life, 5 In the Aftermath of the Holocaust, 6 Cultural Life, 7 Jews in the Reconstruction of the Economy and Cultural Life, 8 International Contacts, 9 The Policy of State Anti-Semitism, Conclusion, Appendix 1: Documents, Appendix 2: Tables, Glossary, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Leonid Smilovitsky is chief researcher at The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University.
