Includes a portion of the papers presented at a conference held at Bar Ilan Univ., Ramat Gan, Dec. 1986 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Moscow Cultural Symposium on Jewish Activists.
Includes bibliographical references.
The evolution of Jewish culture and identity in the Soviet Union / Zvi Gitelman -- The Jewish national movement in the Soviet Union : a profile / Yossi Goldstein -- The impact of ideological changes in the USSR on different generations of the Soviet Jewish intelligentsia / Ludmilla Tsigelman -- Jewish samizdat at the end of the forties : fragments from Margarita Aliger's poem Your victory / Isai Averbukh -- Jewish samizdat and the rise of Jewish national consciousness / Stefani Hoffman -- The role of the synagogue and religion in the Jewish national awakening / Yaacov Ro'i -- The struggle for the study of Hebrew / Vera Yedidya -- Nehama Lifshitz : symbol of the Jewish national awakening / Yaacov Ro'i -- Twenty-five years of Sovetish heymland : impressions and criticism / Chone Shmeruk
The role of officially published Russian literature in the reawakening of Jewish national consciousness (1953-1970) / Shimon Markish -- Background to the present Jewish cultural movement in the Soviet Union / Benjamin Fain -- A brief survey of the history of Hebrew teaching in the USSR / Mark Drachinsky -- Jewish samizdat / Alexander Voronel -- The Moscow Symposium : ten years later / Eliahu Essas -- Soviet Jewish culture today : a personal Israeli account / Erez Biton -- Jewish culture in the USSR today / Lukasz Hirszowicz -- Soviet government policy toward the exterritorial national minorities : comparison between the Jews and the Germans / Benjamin Pinkus -- The Soviet regime and anti-Zionism : an analysis / Jonathan Frankel -- The right to Jewish culture in the Soviet Union / Stephen J. Roth -- Notes on the culture of the non-Ashkenazi Jewish communities under Soviet rule / Michael Zand
Superpower relations and Jewish identity in the Soviet Union / Avi Beker