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Ritual Murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Beyond: New Histories of an Old Accusation
This innovative reassessment of ritual murder accusations brings together scholars working in history, folklore, ethnography, and literature. Favoring dynamic explanations of the mechanisms, evolution, popular appeal, and responses to the blood libel, the essays rigorously engage with the larger soc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany
by Zvi Gitelman • Mikhail Krutikov • Stephanie Sandler • Anna Shternshis • Sveta Roberman • Uzi Rebhun • Jonathan Dekel-Chen • Adrian Wanner • Nelly Elias • Steven J. Gold • Mark Tolts • Hannah Pollin-Galay • Julia Lerner • Marina Sapritsky • Elena Nosenko-Shtein • Olena Bagno-Moldavski • Eliezer Ben-Rafael • Gur Ofer • Yaacov Ro'IIn 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Farming the Red Land: Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924-1941
This is the first history of the Jewish agricultural colonies that were established in Crimea and Southern Ukraine in 1924 and that, fewer than 20 years later, ended in tragedy. Jonathan Dekel-Chen opens an extraordinary window on Soviet rural life during these turbulent years, and he documents the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005