A Century of Ambivalence, Second Expanded Edition: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present - Softcover

Gitelman, Zvi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253214181 ISBN 13: 9780253214188

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2001

Synopsis

A Century of Ambivalence An illustrated survey of the lives and history of Jews in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet era. Full description

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Review:

"Anyone with even a passing interest in the history of Russian Jewry will want to own this splendid ... book." Janet Hadda, Los Angeles Times "... illuminated by an extraordinary collection of photographs that vividly reflect the hopes, triumphs and agonies of Russian Jewish life." David E. Fishman, Hadassah Magazine "Wonderful pictures ... An uplifting [book] for a broad and general audience." Alexander Orbach, Slavic Review

From the Author:

Zvi Gitelman is Professor of Political Science, Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is author of, among other works, Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930 and editor of Bitter Legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the USSR (Indiana University Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0253214181
• ISBN 13: 9780253214188
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320