Rediscovering the shtetl in the late Soviet period: the Leningrad Jewish Independent Movement of the 1980s and the re-establishment of Jewish studies

Beginning in the early 1980s, Leningrad-based Jewish intellectuals began to explore the settlements of the former Pale of Settlement in search of their ethnic and religious identity. Starting in 1982, Ilya Dvorkin, a physicist by training, together with a few friends, undertook several such shtetl e...

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Subtitles:After the Void: The Afterlife of the Shtetl in Postwar Poland, Belarus and Ukraine
Main Author: Huhn, Ulrike 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2025
In: Holocaust studies
Year: 2025, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 517-545
Further subjects:B emigration movement
B shtetl
B Late Soviet Union
B Hasidism
B Jewish Studies
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