‘Children of dorćol’: A case for individual agency in preserving jewish tradition in socialist Yugoslavia

Portrait of a Hero. Martin Gilbert. Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time. London: Mac‐miilan, 1986. xviii + 467pp. New York: Viking Press, 1986. 418pp. Il‐lus. Maps. Appendices. Bibl. Index. £14.95; $24.95.

Unique Series of Source Material. Jacob Ingerman (ed.). Evrei i evreysky narod—Materialy iz sovetskoy pechati (Jews and the Jewish People—Excerpts from the Soviet Press*), vol. 100, July‐December 1982. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, Centre of Research and Documentation of East‐European Jewry, 1985. 330pp.

Jews and Jewish Themes Portrayed in Soviet Literature. Jakub Blum and Vera Rich. The Image of the Jew in Soviet Literature: The Post‐Stalin Period. New York: KTAV Publishing House for the Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1984. viii +276pp. Name Index.     

In search of a lost people: Jews in present‐day Ukrainian historiography

A Relationship on Two Levels. Galia Golan, The Soviet Union and the Palestine Liberation Organization. An Uneasy Alliance. New York: Praeger, 1980. vii + 289pp. £15.25.

The Soviet ‘Black Book’ on the Holocaust. Vasily Grossman and Ilya Ehrenburg (comp. and eds.), Chernaya kniga (The Black Book), annotated and indexed by Mark Kipnis and Hayah Lifshits. Jerusalem: Tarbut Publishers, 1980. xx‐vii + 547pp. Illus. Name Index. Place Index.

A Valuable Account of Jewish Heroism. Reuben Ainsztein, The Warsaw Ghetto Revolt. New York: Holocaust Library, 1979. 238pp. Bibl. $4.95.

The Reality of National Bolshevism. Mikhail Agursky, Ideologiya natsional‐bolshevizma (The Ideology of National Bolshevism). Introduction by Leonard Schapiro. Paris: YMCA Press, 1980. 321pp. Notes. Bibliography.

Communist Zionism in the USSR. Baruch Gurevitz, National Communism in the Soviet Union, 1918–28. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1980. xiii+ 121pp.     

The fate of Belarusian and Yiddish in the Soviet and Post‐Soviet periods

A New ‘Tsar Liberator'?. Seweryn Bialer, Politics, Society, and Nationality Inside Gorbachev's Russia. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1989. xv +241pp. Bibl. Index.

Michael Rywkin, Soviet Society Today. New York and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1989. xii +234pp. Bibl. Index.

Glasnost on Latvian Jewry. Literatūra un Māksla (Literature and Art), no. 48 (2294), Riga, November 1988.

Openness or Concealment?. Raymond Hutchings. Soviet Secrecy and Non‐Secrecy. London: Mac‐millan Press, 1987. 292pp. Bibl. Index. £29.50.

The Making of Czech Jewry. Hillel J. Kieval. The Making of Czech Jewry: National Conflict and Jewish Society in Bohemia 1870–1918. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. x + 279pp. Notes. Bibl. Index. $25.00.     

At the Crossroads of Three Worlds (1943)* By Frederick/Bedřich Fried,New York

Israel and the USSR—An Exercise in Palm‐Reading. Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, with Judith Apter. Israel and the Soviet Union: Alienation or Reconciliation? Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1985. 303pp. Index.

Finding a New World. Victor Ripp, From Moscow to Main Street: Among the Russian Emigrés. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. 247pp.

The Jewish Contribution to Soviet Culture. Jack Miller (ed.). Jews in Soviet Culture. New Brunswick (US) and London (UK): Transaction Books for the Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1984. viii + 331 pp. Tables. Name Index. $24.95; £18.00.

Reassessing a Difficult Relationship. Howard Aster, Peter J. Potichnyj. Jewish‐Ukrainian Relations. Two Solitudes. Oakville, Ontario, Canada: Mosaic Press, 1983. 72pp. No price indicated.

Dissent—No Isolated Phenomenon. Ludmilla Alexeyeva. Soviet Dissent: Contemporary Movements for National, Religious, and Human Rights. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1985. xxii + 552pp. Index. £32.95, $35.00.     

EXHIBITION REVIEW

Encyclopaedic Account of Soviet Middle East Policy. Robert O. Freedman, Moscow and the Middle East: Soviet Policy Since the Invasion of Afghanistan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 438pp. $59.50 hardcover, $16.95 paperback.

Understanding the Jews of Eastern Europe Heiko Haumann, Geschichte der Ostjuden, 1st edition. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1990. 3rd ed., 1992. 213pp. Bibl. Index. DM14.18.

On the Road to Self‐Destruction Henry R. Huttenbach (ed.), Soviet Nationality Policies: Ruling Ethnic Groups in the USSR. London: Mansell, 1990. xvi+302pp. Ind. £35.00 hardcover.

On the Eve of the Holocaust. Ben‐Cion. Pinchuk. Shtetl Jews under Soviet Rule: Eastern Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. viii+186pp. Bibl. Index. (Jewish Society and Culture). £30.00.

’Rocking a Dead Baby’: The Trauma of a Generation Jaff Schatz, The Generation: The Rise and Fall of the Generation of Jewish Communists of Poland. Lund: Lund University, Department of Sociology, 1989. 428pp. Bibl.     

Reviews

‘Mirror Opposites’. Steven E. Aschheim, Brothers and Strangers: The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness, 1800–1923. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. xxxi + 331pp. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0–299–09110–4

Hoping to Live in Harmony. Henry Abramson, A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917–1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute and Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, 1999, xxi + 255pp. Bibl. Index. Illus. $34.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper)

A Jewish‐Russian Hybrid. Dovid Knut, Sobranniye sochineniia (Collected Works) (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Vol. 1. 1997, 417pp.; Vol. 2, 1998, 719pp. Compiled by Vladimir Khazan. Appendices. Index

Russian Jewish Intellectuals in America. Steven Cassedy, To the Other Shore: The Russian Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. xxiii + 197 pp. Illus. Index. ISBN: 0691–02975‐X.     

Contextualising Fred Wander’s The Seventh Well

Between East and West: The Jews of Moscow, Kiev and Minsk. Robert J. Brym with the assistance of Rozalina Ryvkina, The Jews of Moscow, Kiev and Minsk: Identity, Antisemitism, Emigration, edited and with an introduction by Howard Spier. London: Macmillan and New York: New York University Press, both in association with the Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1994. 142 pp. Tables. Appendices. Illus. Name Index. Subject Index. £35.00 hardcover; $30.00 hardcover; $18.50 paperback.

A Jewish Ambassador at the Kremlin Court. Mordechai Altshuler, Yitshak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski (eds.), Sovetskiye evrei pishut llye Erenburgu 1943–1966 (Soviet Jews Write to llya Ehrenburg 1943–1966). Jerusalem: The Centre for Research and Documentation of East‐European Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, 1993. 539 pp. Bibl. Name and Subject Index. Paperback.

An Encouraging Start. Yakiv Suslensky, Spravzhni heroi: pro uchast hromadian Ukrainy u riatuvaniiyevreiv vid fashystskoho henotsydu (True Heroes: The Part Played by Ukrainian Citizens in Rescuing Jews from the Fascist Genocide). Ed. I. F. Kuras et al. Foreword by Leonid Kravchuk. Kiev: Tovarystvo ‘Ukraina’, 1993. 152 pp. Photographs. (Hromadiany Ukrainy—pravednyky svitu 1 (Ukrainian Citizens—Righteous of the World, Series, no. 1)). Paperback. Printrun 25,000. ISBN 5–87168–026–7.

The ‘Rational Core’ of Nazism. Ernst Nolte, Streitpunkte. Heutige und künftige Kontroversen um den Nafionalsozialismus. Berlin/Frankfurt (Main): Propyläen, 1993. 493 pp.

Volume on Hungarian Holocaust Updated. Randolph L. Braham, The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, revised and enlarged ed., 2 vols. New York: The Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Boulder, Co: Social Science Monographs, 1994. 1,486 pp. Illus. Chronology. Index. $310.50; £155.00 hardcover. (Distributed by Columbia University Press.)

Gray Dawn or Swan Song?. Charles Hoffman, Gray Dawn: The Jews of Eastern Europe in the Post‐Communist Era. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. 349pp. Index. Selected bibliography. $25.00 hardcover.     

JEWISH STUDIES IN LITHUANIA

A Massive Cover‐up

Frank Ellis, Vasiliy Grossman: The Genesis and Evolution of a Russian Heretic, Oxford/Providence, USA, Berg 1994. xiv+239pp. Index. Bibliography. £34.95. ISBN 0 85496 830 X

John Garrard and Carol Garrard, The Bones of Berdichev: The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman, New York, The Free Press 1996. xxvi+437pp. Illustrations. Index. Bibliography. ISBN 0–684–82295–4

Living with an Open Wound

Thomas Wood and Stanislaw M. Jankowski, Karski. How One Man Tried To Stop The Holocaust. New York/ Chichester/ Brisbane/Toronto/Singapore: John Wiley and Sons 1994, xvi+316pp. Glossary of names. Bibl. Notes. Ind. Illus.

Cultural Politics of Inter‐war Romania

Irina Livezeanu, Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building and Ethnic Struggle, 1918–1930 (Cornell University Press: Ithaca and London 1995), 340pp. Bibliographies. Index. ISBN 0–8014–2445–3. Cloth £35.50

Files from the ‘Soviet Ministry of Truth’

Arlen V. Blum, Evreysky vopros pod sovetskoy tsenzuroy, 1917–1991 (The Jewish Question under Soviet Censorship, 1917–1991). St Petersburg: St Petersburg Jewish University 1996. 185pp.

Failure of an Ideal

Antony Polonsky, Israel Bartal, Gershon Hundert, Magdalena Opalski and Jerzy Tomaszewski (eds.), Jews, Poles, Socialists. The Failure of an Ideal. Studies in Polish Jewry. Polin, Volume Nine. London: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization 1996. 346 pp.     

Reviews

The Jewish Anti‐Fascist Committee Revisited. Alexander M. Borschtschagowski, Orden für einen Mord: Die Judenverfolgung unter Stalin. Berlin: Propyläen, 1997. Notes. Ind. Glossary. 472pp. ISBN 3–549–05605–2 (hbk)

Arno Lustiger, Rotbuch: Stalin und die Juden. Die tragische Geschichte des Jüdischen Antifaschistischen Komitees und der sowjetischen Juden. With a foreword by Efim Etkind. Berlin: Aufbau‐Verlag, 1998. Bibl. Notes. Ind. Photographs. 429pp. ISBN 3–351–02478–9 (hbk)

A Chicken‐and‐Egg Situation. Charles King and Neil J. Melvin (eds.), Nations Abroad: Diaspora Politics and International Relations in the Former Soviet Union. Boulder, CO/Oxford: Westview Press, 1998. 240 pp. Index. ISBN 0–8133–9015‐X

A Greek Tragedy. Gennady Estraikh, Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic Development. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. x + 217pp. Bibliography. Index. £40. ISBN: 0–19818479–0

Freeze‐Frame Picture. Susanne Marten‐Finnis and Heather Valencia. Sprachinseln. Jiddische Publizistik in London, Wilna und Berlin 1880–1930. Cologne/Weimar/Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1999. 144pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. ISBN: 3–412–02998‐X     

Making Yiddish modern: The creation of a Yiddish‐Language establishment in the Soviet Union

Truth and Half Truth. V.I. Kozlov, Natsionalnosti SSSR. Etnodemografichesky obzor (The Nationalities of the USSR —An Ethno‐Demographic Survey), 2nd ed., Moscow: Finansy i statistika, 1982, 303 pp.

An Unconventional History of Poland. Norman Davies, God's Playground. A History of Poland. In two volumes. Volume I: The Origins to 1795; Volume II: 1795 to the Present. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Vol. I, xviii + 605pp. Illus. Maps. Diagrams. Chronology. Index. £27.50; Vol. II, xxvii + 725pp. Illus. Maps. Diagrams. Chronology. Index. £27.50.

Prelude to Catastrophe. Nathaniel Katzburg. Hungary and the Jews. Policy and Legislation 1920–1943. Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 1981. 299 pp. Bibl. Index. (Publications of the Institute of Holocaust Research). N.p.     

International conference on Jewish civilization in eastern and central Europe,Minsk, 24–26 January 2000

A Symposium on Soviet Jewry

The Jews in Soviet Russia, Since 1917, Lionel Kochan (ed.). London, Oxford University Press for Institute of Jewish Affairs. 1970. ix + 357 pp. Index. £2.50.

Wanted: a history of Soviet Jewry

The Silent Millions: A History of the Jews in the Soviet Union by Joel Cang. London, Rapp and Whiting. 1969. 246 pp. £2.10.

Red Rose

Rosa Luxemburg, Ich War — Ich Bin — Ich Werede Sein, by Harry Wilde. Wien‐Muenchen‐Zurich, Verlag Fritz Molden. 1970. 264 pp.

A Book on Georgian Jewry

Yehudey Gruzia: Ma'avak Al Ha'shiva Le‐tsion (The Jews of Eorgia: A Struggle for the Return to Zion), by Mordecai Neishtat. Tel‐Aviv, Am Oved Publishers, Ltd. 1970. 148 pp. (in Hebrew).

Menshevism and the Jewish question

Russian Social Democracy; the Menshevik Movement. A Bibliography, by Anna M. Bourgina. Hoover Institution Bibliographical Series: XXXVI, The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, Stanford, California. 1968. 392 pp. (no price listed), (in Russian; English introduction).

Jewish writers of Byelorussia

Pismienniki Savieckaj Bielarusi: Karotki Bijabiblijahraficny Davednik (Writers of Soviet Byelorussia: a short Biobibliography), A. Harodzicki et al (comp.). Minsk, Vydavectva ‘Bielarus’. 1970. 440 pp. 82 kopeks.     

Soviet Antisemitism after Stalin

William Korey, Russian Antisemitism, Pamyat, and the Demonology of Zionism (Studies in Antisemitism 2). Chur (Switzerland): Harwood Academic Publishers for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1995. Notes. Bibl. Ind. x+243pp. £35.00: £17.00 (pbk)

Semyon Reznik, The Nazification of Russia: Antisemitism in the Post‐Soviet Era. Washington DC: Challenge Publications 1996. Notes. Ind. 276pp. £14.50: $15.95 (pbk). Distributed in the UK by Gazelle Books Services Ltd, Lancaster

Matthias Messmer, Sowjetischer and postkommunistischer Antisemitismus: Entwicklungen in Russland, der Ukraine und Litauen (Konstanzer Schriften zur Schoah und Judaica). With a foreword by Walter Laqueur. Notes. Append. Bibl. Ind. Konstanz: Hartung‐Gorre 1997. viii+533+7pp. DM72.00 (pbk)     

Books received

A Wider Perspective Needed Avraham Greenbaum (ed.), Minority Problems in Eastern Europe Between the World Wars, with Emphasis on the Jewish Minority, introduced by Edward Allworth, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Advanced Studies. Jerusalem, 1988. pp.viii, 163.

The Jokes of Oppression David A. Harris and Izrail Rabinovich, The Jokes of Oppression: The Humour of Soviet Jews. Northvale, NJ and London: Jason Aronson, 1988. 275pp. $22.50.

A Pleasant Surprise Franti?ek Mi?eje, Revolu?nou Cestou. Spomienky na roky 1938–1948 (On the Path of Revolution: Reminiscences of the Years 1938–1948.) Bratislava: Pravda publishers on behalf of the Institute of Marxism‐Leninism of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovakia, 1988. 232 pp. Illus. Bibl. Index. Kcs 19.00.     

The history and culture of the Jews as reflected in post‐Communist Polish historiography and related activities

A Jewish European Modern Intellectual. Moses Gaster: Memorii, Corespondenta (Moses Gaster: Memoirs and Correspondence). Edited and annotated by Victor Eskenasy. Bucharest: Hasefer Publishing House 1998. xxxv+467pp. (Romanian with English and German summaries)

A Very Selective Reading. Cecil D. Edy, Hungary at War (Pennsylvania State University Press 1998), xx+318pp., price unknown

’Setting the Record Straight‘. The Story of Two Shtetls, Bransk and Ejszyszki. An Overview of Polish‐Jewish Relations in Northeastern Poland during World War II. A Collective Work, Toronto/Chicago: The Polish Educational Foundation in North America 1998. Part 1 190pp., part 2 240pp.

A Symbol of the ‘Story‘. Michael Moshe Checinski, My Father's Watch, New York and Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House 1994, 248pp. Glossary. Hard/softcover, US$30; $14.95

A Curious Experiment. Robert Weinberg, Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland. An Illustrated History, 1928–1996. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998 ix + 105pp. Biblio. Illus. Notes. Index     

The politics of Agudas Yisroel in inter‐war Poland

Yitzhak Arad, Ghetto in Flames. The Struggle and Destruction of the Jews in Vilna in the Holocaust. New York: Holocaust Library, 1982. 500pp. Index. $8.95.

Lucjan Dobroszycki (ed.). The Chronicle of the Lódz Ghetto, 1941–1944. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984. lxviii +551pp. Index. £25.

Yisrael Gutman, The Jews of Warsaw, 1939–1943. Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. Brighton (UK): Harvester Press, 1982. xviii + ‐487pp. Index. £28.

Shmuel Krakowski, The War of the Doomed. Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942–1944. New York and London: Holmes and Meier, 1984. xii +340pp. Index.     

Battling balfour: ‘White Diplomacy’, the Russian Orthodox Church and the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine1

ARCHITECTS OF YIDDISHISM AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. A STUDY IN JEWISH CULTURAL HISTORY, BY EMANUEL S. Goldsmith. Rutherford, Madison, Teaneck, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and London, Associated University Presses, 1976. 309 pp. Illus. Bibl. Index. US $15.00, £7.50.     

A conference on Polish‐Jewish relations

A Special Skill. V. V. Chepko, Goroda Byelorussii v pervoy polovine XIX veka. Ekonomicheskoe razvitie (The Economic Development of the Towns of Byelorussia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century). Minsk: Byelorussian State University, 1981. 144pp. 1.20 roubles.

Jewish Anti‐Fascist Committee. Shimon Redlich. Propaganda and Nationalism in Wartime Russia: The Jewish Antifascist Committee in the USSR, 1941–1948. Boulder, Col.: East European Quarterly, 1982.236 pp. (East European Monographs, 58).

Unwelcome Guests David Prital (ed.). In Search of Self: The Soviet Jewish Intelligentsia and the Exodus. Jerusalem: Mount Scopus Publications, 1982. 262pp.

Antisemitic Classic. Lev Aleksandrovich Korneev. Klassovaya sushchnost sionizma (The Class Essence of Zionism). Kiev. Politizdat Ukrainy, 1982. 263 pp. (Critique of the Ideology and Policies of Anti‐Communism Series). 10,000 copies. 1.20 roubles.

The Super‐Powers in the Middle East. Adeed Dawisha and Karen Dawisha (eds.). The Soviet Union in the Middle East: Policies and Perspectives. London: Heinemann Educational Books for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1982. 172 pp. Tables. Index. (Political Science/World Affairs). £5.50; and R.V. Borisov, SShA. Blizhnevostochnaya politika v 70‐e gody (United States Policy Towards the Middle East in the 1970s). Moscow: Nauka, 1982. 216 pp.     

‘My Judaic Pride Sang’: Eduard Bagritskii and the Making of Soviet Jewish Identity

Maxim D. Shrayer, Russian Poet/Soviet Jew. The Legacy of Eduard Bagritskii. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. XV + 163pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. ISBN 0–7425–0780–7