Since the late 1980s one of the worlds largest Jewish populations has faced aunique dilemma at the very time it has gained unprecedented freedoms Sovietand post... » 

Since the late 1980s one of the worlds largest Jewish populations has faced aunique dilemma at the very time it has gained unprecedented freedoms Sovietand postSoviet Jewry has encountered political uncertainty economicinstability and resurgent antisemitism. A population teetering simultaneouslyon the edge of decline and revival Jews in the former Soviet Union have had todecide whether to take advantage of the new opportunity to revive Jewish lifeand rebuild Jewish communities live in the newly established states butdisappear as Jews or abandon their former homes and emigrate to Israel orelsewhere.Jewish Life after the USSR is the first book to study postSoviet Jewry indepth. Its careful analyses of demographic cultural political and ethnicprocesses affecting an important postSoviet population also give insights intolarger developments in the postSoviet states. A finegrained snapshot of oneof the worlds great Jewish centers the volume is essential reading for thoseseeking to understand the past present and future of postSoviet Jewry. «