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A01=Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
Author_Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
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- ISBN 9780299194840
- Weight: 339g
- Dimensions: 156 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 24 Feb 2004
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This work provides a detailed study of a phenomenon in post-Stalinist Russia - the conversion of thousands of Russian Jewish intellectuals to Orthodox Christianity in the 1960s and in the 1980s, the decades before and after the great exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union. It contends that the choice of baptism into the Church was an act of moral courage in the face of Soviet persecution, motivated by solidarity with Russian Christian dissidents and intellectuals. It considers the dwindling Jewish religious practice in Russia, the transformation of Jews from a religious community to an ethnic one, a longing for spiritual values, and the forging of a new Jewish identity within the dissident movement.
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt is professor and associate chair of the Department of Slavic languages and literature and associate dean for Arts and Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is author of The Cossack Hero in Russian Literature and Russian Religious Thought.
