The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines by Marat Grinberg non-media including Christian Wiman

including Christian Wiman

They expose the character and foibles of the community and make fun of foolish and hypocritical behavior

and the very nature of confession for men and women today

anti-Semitism

salvaging any valuables

The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines by Marat Grinberg non-media including Christian WimanAn original investigation into the reading strategies and uses of books by Jews in the Soviet era. In The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf, Marat Grinberg argues that in an environment where Judaism had been all but destroyed, and a public Jewish presence routinely delegitimized, reading uniquely provided many Soviet Jews with an entry to communal memory and identity. The bookshelf was both a depository of selective Jewish knowledge and often the only