Jews in the Soviet Union : a history
Elissa Bemporad (Author), Deborah Hope Yalen (Author), Arkadiĭ Zelʹt︠s︡er (Author), G. Ėstraĭkh (Author), O. V. Budnit︠s︡kiĭ (Author), David Engel (Author), Anna Shternshis (Author), Eugene Shvidler Project for the History of the Jews in the Soviet Union (Organizer, Sponsor)
"At the beginning of the twentieth century, more Jews lived in the Russian Empire than anywhere else in the world. After the Holocaust, the USSR remained one of the world's three key centers of Jewish population, along with the United States and Israel. While a great deal is known about the history and experiences of the Jewish people in the US and in Israel in the twentieth century, much less is known about the experiences of Soviet Jews. Understanding the history of Jewish communities under Soviet rule is essential to comprehending the dynamics of Jewish history in the modern world. Only a small number of scholars and the last generation of Soviet Jews who lived during this period hold a deep knowledge of this history. Jews in the Soviet Union, a new multi-volume history, is an unprecedented undertaking. Publishing over the next few years, this groundbreaking work draws on rare access to documents from the Soviet archives, allowing for the presentation of a sweeping history of Jewish life in the Soviet Union from 1917 through the early 1990s." -- Publisher's description
Print Book, English, 2022
New York University Press, New York, 2022