Chapter 14. Refuseniks and Rights Defenders: Jews and the Soviet Dissident Movement

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Imperial and National Crucibles
5. Chapter 1. “ Little Russia” in Palestine? Imperial Past, National Future (1860–1948) 19
6. Chapter 2. From Hyphenated Jews to Independent Jews: The Collapse of the Rus sian Empire and the Change in the Relationship Between Jews and Others 45
7. Chapter 3. Jewish Palestine and Eastern Eu rope: I Am in the East and My Heart Is in the West 70
8. Chapter 4. Stateless Nation: A Reciprocal Motif Between Polish Nationalism and Zionism 87
9. Part II. Groups and Institutions
10. Chapter 5. The Paradox of Soviet Influence: The Case of Kibbutz Ha- Shomer Ha-Tsa‘ir from the USSR 117
11. Chapter 6. Triumphs of Conservatism: Beit Yaakov and the Polish Origins of Haredi Girls’ Education in Israel 143
12. Chapter 7. Hasidic Leadership: From Charismatic to Hereditary and Back 174
13. Chapter 8. Connecting Poland and Palestine: The Organizational Model of He-Haluts 194
14. Part III. Formations of Political Culture
15. Chapter 9. Israel’s Polish Heritage 221
16. Chapter 10. Violenceas Political Experience Among Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland 243
17. Chapter 11. From Zionism as Ideology to the Yishuv as Fact: Polish Jewish Re orientations Toward Palestine Within and Beyond Zionism, 1927–1932 271
18. Chapter 12. Hero Shtetls: Reading Civil War Self- Defense in the Yishuv 305
19. Part IV. Soviet Interludes
20. Chapter 13. American Jews and the Zionist Movements in the Soviet Union: The Joint and He- Haluts in Crimea in the 1920s 343
21. Chapter 14. Refuseniks and Rights Defenders: Jews and the Soviet Dissident Movement 362
22. List of Contributors 377
23. Index 381
24. Acknowledgments 395