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.
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Jews -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Identity.
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Jews, Soviet -- Connecticut -- Hartford.
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Immigrants -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History -- 20th century.
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Jews -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Jews -- Soviet Union -- Identity.
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Jews -- Migrations.
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Hartford (Conn.) -- Ethnic relations.
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Soviet Union -- Ethnic relations.
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ISBN |
0791449459 alkaline paper |
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0791449467 paperback alkaline paper |
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