The Whole Life with Books": the Soviet Jewry's Journey from the Bible to the Library

Authors

  • Galina Zelenina Центр истории и социологии Второй мировой войны НИУ ВШЭ Автор

Keywords:

ussr, judaism, jews, bible, anti-semitism, holocaust, world War II, oral history, libraries, cheder

Abstract

Based on the extensive collection of interviews with Soviet, mostly Ukrainian, Jews born before World War II, the essay examines changes in their reading experience and reading priorities from Bible-centered religious booklore to kulturnost' - a broad bookish culture of the Soviet intelligentsia.

Published

2012-05-15

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 3 (2012)

Section

Articles