The closing decade of the 20th century witnessed dramatic upheavals across landscapes that had once housed most of the world's Jewish population: the overturning of the East European Communist governments and the fall of the USSR, accompanied by a major Jewish emigration movement. The experts contributing to this volume apply interdisciplinary approaches to analyze and interpret the shifting post-communist social and political realities and aid our understanding of recent events.

Eli Lederhendler is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds the Stephen S. Wise Chair in American Jewish History and Institutions and chairs the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry. He has published widely on modern European and American Jewish history.

• Symposium


• Becoming Post-Communist: Jews and the New Political Cultures of Russia and Eastern Europe


• Eli Lederhendler, Introduction: Jews, Communism and Post-Communism: Short and Long-term Aftereffects


• Jelena Subotic, Historical Memory and Antisemitism in Post-Communist East Central Europe


• Jonathan Zisook, The Politics of Holocaust Memory in Central and Eastern Europe: Contemporary Poland as a Comparative Case Study


• András Kovács, Jewish Revival in Post-Communist Hungary: Expectations and Reality


• Marcin Wodzinski, Prospects for Jewish Studies in Poland: An Update for a New Decade


• Vladimir Levin, Jewish Cultural Heritage in the USSR and after Its Collapse


• Mark Tolts, Russian Jewry in the Post-Soviet Era: Socio-Demographic Transformation


• Semion Goldin, Becoming Jews: The Petersburg Jewish University in the 1990s


• Essay


• Janiv Stamberger, Bridging the Divide: Philanthropy as an Intersection Point in Belgian Jewish Society during the Interwar Period




• Review Essay


• Shulamit Volkov, Antisemitism in Context: Three Recent Volumes


• Book Reviews (arranged by subject)


• Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide


• Kiril Feferman, If we had wings we would fly to you: A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction, 1941-42, Eliyana R. Adler


• Sol Goldberg, Scott Ury, and Kalman Weiser (eds.), Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism, Shulamit Volkov


• Abigail Green and Simon Levis Sullam (eds.), Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: A Global History, Shulamit Volkov


• Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and Markus Zisselberger (eds.), The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes, Erez Pery


• Thomas Pegelow Kaplan and Wolf Gruner (eds.), Resisting Persecution: Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust, David Silberklang


• Scott Ury and Guy Miron (eds.), Antishemiyut: bein musag histori lesiah tziburi (Antisemitism: Historical Concept, Public Discourse), Shulamit Volkov


• Cultural Studies, Literature, and Religion


• Steven E. Aschheim, Fragile Spaces: Forays into Jewish Memory, European History, and Complex Identities, Jeffrey A. Grossman


• Manuela Consonni and Vivian Liska (eds.), Sartre, Jews, and the Other: Rethinking Antisemitism, Race, and Gender, Norman J.W. Goda


• Dina Danon, The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History, Esra Almas


• Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa, The Memory Work of Jewish Spain, Martina L. Weisz


• Malte Fuhrmann, Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire, Esra Almas


• Eran Kaplan, Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen, Liat Steir-Livny


• Louis Kaplan, At Wit's End: The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke, Peter Jelavich


• James McAuley, The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France, Richard I. Cohen


• Mirjam Rajner, Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945, Andrew Wachtel


• Diego Rotman, The Yiddish Stage as a Temporary Home: Dzigan and Shumacher's Satirical Theater (1927-1980), trans. Rebecca Wolpe, Vassili Schedrin


• Lynne M. Swarts, Gender, Orientalism and the Jewish Nation: Women in the Work of Ephraim Moses Lilien at the German Fin de Siecle, Lauren B. Strauss


• Edmund de Waal, Letters to Camondo, Richard I. Cohen


• History, Biography, Social and Gender Studies


• Barry R. Chiswick, Jews at Work: Their Economic Progress in the American Labor Market, Paul Burstein


• Zev Eleff, Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-bound Faith in American Life, Samuel Heilman


• Elisabeth Gallas, A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust, trans. Alex Skinner, David E. Fishman


• Dvora Hacohen, To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Mira Katzburg-Yungman


• Rachel Manekin, The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia, Michael L. Miller


• Rafael Medoff, The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust, Stephen J. Whitfield


• Michael A. Meyer, Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times, Steven E. Aschheim


• Sharon Pardo and Hila Zahavi (eds.), The Jewish Contribution to European Integration, Michael Berkowitz


• Joel Perlmann, America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census, Barry R. Chiswick


• Anne C. Schenderlein, Germany on Their Minds: German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Their Relationships with Germany, 1938-1988, Ofer Ashkenazi


• Harvey Schwartz (ed.), The Jewish Thought and Psychoanalysis Lectures, Shmuel Erlich


• Augusto Segre, Stories of Jewish Life: Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876-1985, trans. Steve Siporin, Luisa Levi D'Ancona Modena


• Nancy Sinkoff, From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals and the Politics of Jewish History, Jeffrey S. Gurock


• Stephen J. Whitfield, Learning on the Left: Political Profiles of Brandeis University, David Ellenson


• Steven J. Zipperstein, Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History, Francois Guesnet


• Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East


• Yuval Evri, Hashivah leAndalus: mahlokot 'al tarbut vezehut yehudit-sefaradit bein 'araviyut le'ivriyut (The Return to Al-Andalus: Disputes over Sephardic Culture and Identity between Arabic and Hebrew), Menachem Klein


• Tal Elmaliach, Hakibbutz Ha'artzi, Mapam, and the Demise of the Israeli Labor Movement, trans. Haim Watzman, Yechiam Weitz


• Sharon Geva, Haishah mah omeret? Nashim beyisrael bishnot hamedinah harishonot (Women in the State of Israel: The Early Years), Orit Rozin


• Walter L. Hixson, Israel's Armor: The Israel Lobby and the First Generation of the Palestine Conflict, Joseph Heller


• Nir Kedar, Law and Identity in Israel: A Century of Debate, trans. Haim Watzman, Yehudit Dori Deston


• Fredrik Meiton, Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation, Yossi Ben Artzi


• Yonatan Mendel, Safah mihutz limkomah: orientalizm, modi'in veha'aravit beyisrael (Language out of Place: Orientalism, Intelligence and Arabic in Israel), Menachem Klein


• Rachel Rojanski, Yiddish in Israel: A History, Yaad Biran


• Marc Volovici, German as a Jewish Problem: The Language Politics of Jewish Nationalism, Moshe Zimmermann


• Note on Editorial Policy