Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment Minsk by Elissa Bemporad Tote Bag and indeed in Eastern Europe

and indeed in Eastern Europe

Produced by Yitzhak Goskin | Text and Narration by Asher Lerner

It was a life by turns absurd

commercial

Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment Minsk by Elissa Bemporad Tote Bag and indeed in Eastern EuropeMinsk, 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