4. From Friends to Enemies? The Soviet State and Its Jews in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Periphery and Center
5. 1. A New Life? The Pre-Holocaust Past and Post-Holocaust Present in the Life of the Jewish Community of Dzierżoniów, Lower Silesia, 1945–1950 13
6. 2. Erased from History: Jewish Migrants in Postwar Czechoslovakia 35
7. 3. On the Borders of Legality: Connections between Traditional Culture and the Informal Economy in Jewish Life in the Soviet Provinces 54
8. Part II: Perceptions Of Jewishness
9. 4. From Friends to Enemies? The Soviet State and Its Jews in the Aftermath of the Holocaust 69
10. 5. “I Was Not Like Everybody Else”: Soviet Jewish Doctors Remember the Doctors’ Plot 91
11. 6. “After Auschwitz You Must Take Your Origins Seriously”: Perceptions of Jewishness among Communists of Jewish Origin in the Early German Democratic Republic 111
12. 7. Being Jewish in Soviet Birobidzhan: Between Stigma and Cynicism 131
13. Part III: Transnationalism 151
14. 8. An Alternative World: Jews in the German Democratic Republic, Their Transnational Networks, and a Global Jewish Communist Community 151
15. 9. Soviet Yiddish Cultural Diplomacy in the Post-Stalinist 1950s 174
16. 10. Family Discourse, Migration, and Nation-Building in Poland and Israel in the Late 1950s 195
17. PART IV: DISSIDENTS
18. 11. Three Jewish Social Networks: A (Non-) Encounter in Malakhovka 213
19. 12. The Opposition of the Opposition: New Jewish Identities in the Illegal Underground Public Sphere in Late Communist Hungary 236
20. Acknowledgments 253
21. Notes on Contributors 255
22. Index 259