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Author Hoffman, Betty N.

Title Jewish hearts : a study of dynamic ethnicity in the United States and the Soviet Union / Betty N. Hoffman.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001]
©2001

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  974.63 H699J    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  974.63 HOFFMAN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  974.63 HOFFMAN    Check Shelf
Description xxvi, 282 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Contents Definitions and Demographics -- Russian Jews -- Soviet Jews -- American Jews -- Sources of Information -- "The Literature" -- Theoretical Analysis in a Complex World -- The Transformation of Jewish Life in Two Contexts, 1881-1970 -- The Old Country -- Ethnicity and Anti-Semitism: Critical Boundaries -- Assassination -- Politics and Power -- Religion and Ideology: The Basis for Social Cohesion -- Education -- Economic Production under Anti-Semitic Pressure -- War, Chaos, and Change -- Revolution -- The Search for a Niche in the Soviet World -- New Incentives, New Constraints, and Anti-Semitism -- The Consolidation of Communist Power -- The Decimation of Religious Practice: Silence as a Strategy -- Education for the New Economy -- The Great Patriotic War: The Decimation of the Jews -- Discrimination at Home, Support for Israel Abroad -- Stalin's Final Terror -- The Post-Stalin Era -- The Six Day War -- Beyond Silence: Moving toward a Positive Jewish Ethnicity -- Die Goldene Medine: The Golden Land -- Hartford: The Challenge of the New World -- Yiddishkeit in Hartford: The Immigrant Neighborhood -- Adapting to the Hartford Political System -- Religious Practice: The Defining Ethnic Marker -- Kinship and Social Structure -- Education and Americanization: New Secular Trends -- Searching for Economic Security -- The Beginning of Immigration Restriction -- The Consolidation of the Hartford Community -- The Area of Second Settlement -- The Depression and Anti-Semitism: Limiting the Refugees -- World War II and the Aftermath.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index.
Subject Jews -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History -- 20th century.
Jews -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Identity.
Jews, Soviet -- Connecticut -- Hartford.
Immigrants -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History -- 20th century.
Jews -- Soviet Union -- History.
Jews -- Soviet Union -- Identity.
Jews -- Migrations.
Hartford (Conn.) -- Ethnic relations.
Soviet Union -- Ethnic relations.
ISBN 0791449459 alkaline paper
0791449467 paperback alkaline paper
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