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The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa

2013-03-08 History
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Release : 2013-03-08
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Book Synopsis The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa by : Albert Kaganovich

Download or read book The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa written by Albert Kaganovich. This book was released on 2013-03-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located on the Dnieper River at the crossroads of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, the town of Rechitsa had one of the oldest Jewish communities in Belarus, dating back to medieval times. By the late nineteenth century, Jews constituted more than half of the town’s population. Rich in tradition, Jewish Rechitsa was part of a distinctive Lithuanian-Belorussian culture full of stories, vibrant personalities, achievement, and epic struggle that was gradually lost through migration, pogroms, and the Holocaust. Now, in Albert Kaganovitch’s meticulously researched history, this forgotten Jewish world is brought to life. Based on extensive use of Soviet and Israeli archives, interviews, memoirs, and secondary sources, Kaganovitch’s acclaimed work, originally published in Russian, is presented here in a significantly revised English translation by the author. Details of demographic, social, economic, and cultural changes in Rechitsa’s evolution, presented over the sweep of centuries, reveal a microcosm of daily Jewish life in Rechitsa and similar communities. Kaganovitch looks closely at such critical developments as the spread of Chabad Hasidism, the impact of multiple political transformations and global changes, and the mass murder of Rechitsa’s remaining Jews by the German army in November to December 1941. Kaganovitch also documents the evolving status of Jews in the postwar era, starting with the reconstitution of a Jewish community in Rechitsa not long after liberation in 1943 and continuing with economic, social, and political trends under Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev, and finally emigration from post-Soviet Belarus. The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa is a major achievement. Winner, Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Scholarship, Koffler Centre of the Arts

Jewish Life in Belarus

2014-07-20 History
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Release : 2014-07-20
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Jewish Life in Belarus by : Leonid Smilovitsky

Download or read book Jewish Life in Belarus written by Leonid Smilovitsky. This book was released on 2014-07-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 this period was sealed in inaccessible archives. The Jews of Belarus preferred to keep silent rather than expose themselves to the animosity of the authorities. Although the fate of Belarusian Jews before and during the war has now been amply studied, this book is one of the first attempts to study Jewish life in Belarus during the last decade of Stalin's rule. In addition to archival materials, the present research is based on a questionnaire submitted to former residents of Belarus in Israel, as well as information from periodicals, collections of documents, statistical reports and monographs.

Intersections between Jews and Media

2020-03-23 Religion
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Release : 2020-03-23
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Intersections between Jews and Media by : Maya Balakirsky Katz

Download or read book Intersections between Jews and Media written by Maya Balakirsky Katz. This book was released on 2020-03-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intersections between Jews and Media explores both the real Jews who embraced mass media and the fantasies they inspired.

The Plight of Jewish Deserted Wives, 1851-1900

2022-10-01 History
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Release : 2022-10-01
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Book Synopsis The Plight of Jewish Deserted Wives, 1851-1900 by : Dr Haim Sperber

Download or read book The Plight of Jewish Deserted Wives, 1851-1900 written by Dr Haim Sperber. This book was released on 2022-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agunot (Agunah, sing., meaning anchored in Hebrew) is a Jewish term describing women who cannot remarry because their husband has disappeared. According to Jewish law (Halacha) a woman can get out of the marriage only if the husband releases her by granting a divorce writ (Get), if he dies, or if his whereabouts is not known. Women whose husbands cannot be located, and who have not been granted a Get, are considered Agunot. The Agunah phenomenon was of major concern in East European Jewry and much referred to in Hebrew and Yiddish media and fiction. Most nineteenth-century Agunot cases came from Eastern Europe, where most Jews resided (twentieth-century Agunot were primarily in North America, and will be the subject of a forthcoming book). Seven variations of Agunot have been identified: Deserted wives; women who refused to receive, or were not granted, a Get; widowed women whose brothers-in-law refused to grant them permission to marry someone else (Halitza); women whose husbands remains were not found; improperly or incorrectly written Gets; women whose husbands became mentally ill and were not competent to grant a Get; women refused a Get by husbands who had converted to Christianity or Islam. The book explores the reasons for desertion and the plight of the left-alone wife. Key is the change from a legal issue to a social one, with changing attitudes to philanthropy and public opinion at the fore of explanation. A statistical database of circa 5000 identified Agunot is to be published simultaneously in a separate companion volume (978-1-78976-167-2).

The Portrayal of Jews in Modern Biełarusian Literature

2018-07-02 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2018-07-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Portrayal of Jews in Modern Biełarusian Literature by : Zina J. Gimpelevich

Download or read book The Portrayal of Jews in Modern Biełarusian Literature written by Zina J. Gimpelevich. This book was released on 2018-07-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cold Rush Martin Breum travels through and describes the new quest for the Arctic and the tortuous ongoing diplomatic endeavours to maintain peace, while the governments involved all develop still stronger security presences.

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