The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines by Marat Grinberg Yiddish Learning showing where Yiddish came from

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The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines by Marat Grinberg Yiddish Learning showing where Yiddish came fromAn 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