Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment Minsk by Elissa Bemporad Dictionaries Fania Lewando

Fania Lewando

Novelist Joseph Skibell celebrates Kantor's "brave vision

Fishman argues that Yiddish culture enveloped all socioeconomic classes

Schwartz's adaptation of Aleichem's story offered little comfort for audiences of the time

Paperback 2000

Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment Minsk by Elissa Bemporad Dictionaries Fania LewandoMinsk, the present capital of Belarus, was a heavily Jewish city in the decades between the world wars. Recasting our understanding of Soviet Jewish history, Becoming Soviet Jews demonstrates that the often violent social changes enforced by the communist project did not destroy continuities with prerevolutionary forms of Jewish life in Minsk. Using Minsk as a case study of the Sovietization of Jews in the former Pale of Settlement, Elissa Bemporad