Contents
Jewish Lives under Communism
Kate¿ina ¿apková, Kamil Kijek, and Stephan Stach
Periphery and Center
A New Life? The pre-Holocaust Past and post-Holocaust Present in the Life of Jewish Community of Dzier¿oniów, Lower Silesia, 1945–50
Kamil Kijek
Erased from History: Jewish Migrants in Postwar Czechoslovakia
Kate¿ina ¿apková
On the Borders of Legality: Connections between Traditional Culture and the Informal Economy in Jewish Life in the Soviet Provinces
Valery Dymshits
Perceptions of Jewishness
From Friends to Enemies? The Soviet State and Its Jews in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Diana Dumitru
‘I was not like Everybody Else’: Soviet Jewish Doctors remember the Doctor’s Plot
Anna Shternshis
‘After Auschwitz you must take your origin seriously’: Perceptions of Jewishness among Communists of Jewish origin in the early German Democratic Republic
Anna Koch
Jewish in Soviet Birobidzhan: Between Stigma and Cynicism
Agata Maksimowska
Transnationalism
An Alternative World: Jews in the German Democratic Republic, Their Transnational Networks, and a Global Jewish Communist Community
David Shneer
Soviet Yiddish Cultural Diplomacy in the Post-Stalinist 1950s
Gennady Estraikh
Family Discourse, Migrations, and Nation-building in Poland and Israel in the Late 1950s
Marcos Silber
Dissidents
Three Jewish Social Networks: A (Non-)Encounter in Malakhovka
Galina Zelenina
The Opposition of the Opposition: New Jewish Identities in the Illegal Underground Public Sphere in Late Communist Hungary
Kata Bohus
Acknowledgements
Index
Notes on Contributors

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