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""An illuminating, deeply humane reconstruction of Jewish life, in all of its remarkable diversity, as it was experienced in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. In this sweeping work of history, written with characteristic grace and attention to detail, Elissa Bemporad provides a compelling account of the astonishing new possibilities of the Soviet Jewish experiment and the tragic consequences that followed."" - Eugene M. Avrutin, author of The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town ""Certain to be an instant classic, Bemporad's book captures the extraordinary diversity of Jewish experiences of the Bolshevik Revolution. With elegant prose and a deep humanity, Bemporad offers compelling portraits of individual lives of Jewish women and men from across the geographic, socioeconomic, and ideological expanses of the early Soviet state. These vignettes illuminate the astonishing variety of Jewish responses to the transformations in culture, identity, community, and religion that the Bolsheviks demanded."" - Brigid O'Keeffe, author of The Multiethnic Soviet Union and its Demise ""The first part of a six-volume account of the history of the Jews under Soviet rule, this compelling and well documented book is a path-breaking investigation of the fate of this community from the Bolshevik revolution to the rise of Stalinism. The work of an acknowledged expert in the field, it is essential reading for all those interested in the evolution of communism and the tragic destiny of the Jews in twentieth century Eastern Europe."" - Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University ""A broad-sweeping, eloquently written history, Bemporad chronicles the Jewish experience of Sovietization and the first socialist society's reciprocal experience of Jews, from their lives in the Pale of Settlement in the late 1880s through the Bolshevik Revolution and heady 1920s….Bemporad's illuminating work leaves few stones unturned— a 'must-read' for anyone interested in understanding an extraordinary epoch that shaped the twentieth century and the world today."" - Nanci Adler, author of Keeping Faith with the Party: Communist Believers Return from the Gulag ""A great opening of the multi-volume endeavor to tell the history of the Jews in the Soviet Union….Thanks to the successful combination of macro- and micro-history, this polyphonic study, sensitive to gender, age and geography, which maps the new blueprints of Soviet Jewish life from Minsk to the Crimea, the Caucasus and Central Asia, is an invaluable contribution to the field. "" - Sabine Koller, Professor of Slavic-Jewish Studies, University of Regensburg

""Certain to be an instant classic, Bemporad's book captures the extraordinary diversity of Jewish experiences of the Bolshevik Revolution. With elegant prose and a deep humanity, Bemporad offers compelling portraits of individual lives of Jewish women and men from across the geographic, socioeconomic, and ideological expanses of the early Soviet state. These vignettes illuminate the astonishing variety of Jewish responses to the transformations in culture, identity, community, and religion that the Bolsheviks demanded.""--Brigid O'Keeffe, author of The Multiethnic Soviet Union and its Demise ""An illuminating, deeply humane reconstruction of Jewish life, in all of its remarkable diversity, as it was experienced in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. In this sweeping work of history, written with characteristic grace and attention to detail, Elissa Bemporad provides a compelling account of the astonishing new possibilities of the Soviet Jewish experiment and the tragic consequences that followed.""--Eugene M. Avrutin, author of The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town

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Elissa Bemporad is Jerry and William Ungar Chair in Eastern European Jewish History and the Holocaust and Professor of History in the Department of History at Queens College and The Graduate Center - CUNY. She is the author of Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Land of the Soviets.

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