In 1928 the Soviet Union proposed the establishment of an autonomous socialist Jewish republic in the far eastern reaches of Russian territory. In Birobidzhan t

From the late nineteenth century through the post-Holocaust era, the world was divided between countries that tried to expel their Jewish populations and those

This volume provides new, groundbreaking views of Jewish life in various countries of the pro-Soviet bloc from the end of the Second World War until the collaps

While a number of books and articles have been written about Jewish Communist organizations and their supporters in particular countries, an academic treatment

This book presents original studies of how a cultural concept of Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history came to make sense in the experiences of people entang