TY  - BOOK
ED  - Lederhendler, Eli
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Becoming post-Communist: jews and the new political cultures of Russia and Eastern Europe
T3  - Studies in contemporary jewry 33
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - New York, NY
KW  - Antisemitism
KW  - Europe, Central
KW  - History
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - Post-communism
KW  - Jews
KW  - Migrations
KW  - Politics and government
AB  - "Across the landscape that until 1939 housed most of the world's Jewish population, the closing decade of the 20th century witnessed dramatic upheavals: the overturning of the East European communist governments and the fall of the USSR, accompanied by a major Jewish emigration movement. The legacy of the Jewish presence in those countries, as viewed from today's vantage point, and the ways in which it became enmeshed in the quest by people of the region-Jews and non-Jews alike-to secure their prospects for the future, highlighted fundamental issues about the nature and quality of the politics of memory, national identity, and the continuity and relative stability of regimes in the region. If those questions were important even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, understanding their implications now seems even more crucial. In a field fraught with conflicting narratives, the challenges of social and political reconstruction are primary concerns for peoples and governments. The experts contributing to this volume apply interdisciplinary approaches to analyze and interpret a multiplicity of post-communist social realities and aid our understanding of recent events"--
SN  - 9780197687215
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197687215.001.0001
DO  - 10.1093/oso/9780197687215.001.0001
LA  - English
N1  - editor: Eli Lederhendler
ID  - 1822569699
ER  -