Sylabus
1. Introduction. Did a “Russian Jewry” ever exist? Meanings and definitions.
2. “Selective integration” and the emergence of Russian-speaking Jewry.
3. Post-emancipation without emancipation? Activism, nationalism, socialism.
4. The Russian revolutions of 1917, Soviet nationalism, and Jewish self-identification.
5. Continuity and Change in the 1920s and the 1930s.
6. World War II and the Holocaust in the USSR.
7. Late Stalinism and the emergence of Soviet state antisemitism.
8. A Discriminated Elite? Soviet Jewish identities after
1953.
9. Dissidents and Zionists: The Jewish Movement in the USSR after
1967.
10. Conclusion: the last Soviet decade and beyond.