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After Soviet State Antisemitism: Emigration, Transformation, and the Re-Building of Jewish Life Since 1991
Editor(s): Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan; Khanin, Vladimir Ze'ev
Date: 2024
Topics: Jewish Community, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Post-1989, Russian-Speaking Jews, Jewish Revival
Abstract: Following the abolishment of state-sanctioned antisemitism under Gorbachev’s Perestroika liberalization policy, Jewish life in the (F)SU ([former] Soviet Union) was dominated by two interrelated trends: large-scale emigration on the one hand, and attempts to re-establish a fully-organized local Jewish life on the other. Although many aspects of these trends have become the subjects of academic research, a few important developments in the recent decade have not been studied in depth. The authors of this volume trace these trends using various methods from the social sciences and humanities and focusing on issues pertaining to the physical, mental, legal, and cultural borders of the Jewish collective in the post-Soviet Eurasia; traditional and modern patterns of Jewish ethnic, national, religious, and cultural identities; the development of Jewish organizations and movements; contemporary Jewish religious and civil culture; and the general sociocultural and political context(s) of the FSU Jewish life.
Yiddish: Identity and Language Politics in the Post-Soviet Ukrainian Jewish Community
Author(s): Khanin, Vladimir (Zeev)
Editor(s): Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan; Polonsky, Antony
Date: 2013
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Community, Yiddish, Language, Jewish Revival
Abstract: Revival of Jewish national and cultural life and its organizational structure has been highly significant in the post-Soviet environment of the recent decades. Attempts to institutionalize Jewish communities in the countries of the former Soviet Union—post-Soviet Jews, no matter where they live today, need to resolve a plethora of problems similar in nature but different in scope. The search for cultural, national, and linguistic identity remains a firm objective. It is only natural that in such circumstances the language problem is a key identifying factor. The article looks at the contemporary role and status of Yiddish taking the example of Ukraine, where the tradition of this language, has never been broken despite the hardships and troubles of the past century.