Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment Minsk by Elissa Bemporad Tote Bag visited only furtively

visited only furtively

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With black-and-white illustrations throughout

Produced by Yitzhak Goskin | Text and Narration by Asher Lerner

"Touched by Fire

Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment Minsk by Elissa Bemporad Tote Bag visited only furtivelyMinsk, the present capital of Belarus, was a heavily Jewish city in the decades between the world wars. Recasting our understanding of Soviet Jewish history, Becoming Soviet Jews demonstrates that the often violent social changes enforced by the communist project did not destroy continuities with prerevolutionary forms of Jewish life in Minsk. Using Minsk as a case study of the Sovietization of Jews in the former Pale of Settlement, Elissa Bemporad