Becoming Post-Communist - Jews And The New Political Cultures Of Russia And Eastern Europe

The closing decade of the 20th century witnessed dramatic upheavals across landscapes that had once housed most of the world''s Jewish population: the overturning of the East European Communist governments and the fall of the USSR, accompanied by a major Jewish emigration movement. The experts contributing to this volume apply interdisciplinary approaches to analyze and interpret the shifting post-communist social and political realities and aid our understanding of recent events.