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Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders builds upon discussions of Jewish survival and cultural viability after the Holocaust in Eastern and Central Europe, including the Soviet Union. This book confronts both a shifting postwar geopolitical landscape and the remnants of devastated European Jewish populations with their global diasporas, tragically and radically transformed. The volume traces the flow of ideas, people, cultural practices and materials, and even bodily remains across securitized Cold War borders, as the postwar geography of European Jewish life largely shifted to Israel and North America. How did Jews and Jewish institutions across hostile Cold War geopolitical boundaries seek and maintain contact with each other? Contact meant continuity. Contact was a means of mapping the Cold War terrain, of exploring strategies of adaptation, conservation, and reconstruction. It meant rabbis’ reprised visits to the USSR, wholesale movement of libraries, dissent, dashed dreams of belonging, and urns of ashes.
Introduction: Contact, by Rebekah Klein-Pejšová and Jacob Ari Labendz
1 From Behind a Star: Philip Roth, Rita Klímová, and the American Arrival of Jiří Weil, by Brian Goodman
2 Cold War and Cultural Transfer: The Hebrew University Restitution Missions in Postwar Eastern Europe, by Anna Holzer-Kawałko
3 The Arduous Journey of Immánuel Löw’s Library from Szeged to Jerusalem, by Vera Ábrahám and Dóra Pataricza
4 Appropriation, Abstraction, and Erasure: Jewish Human Remains on the Move Between and Across Cold War Borders, by Zuzanna Dziuban and Ran Zwigenberg
5 Passover for the Passed Over: Jewish Religious Life and Its Political Implications in the Polish People’s Republic, 1968–1989, by Jonathan Zisook
6 Back in the USSR: Repeat Travel to Aid Soviet Jews by European-Born American Orthodox Rabbis in the 1960s, by Shaul Kelner
7 Haredi Geographies: Jewish Cemeteries in Poland and Czechoslovakia, by Jacob Ari Labendz
8 American Jewry and the Challenge of Jewish Diaspora in the Shadow of the Holocaust and the Cold War: A Training Program in the United States for Jewish Social Workers as a Test Case, by Zohar Segev
9 Wandering Jews as Cold War Pawns, by Jonathan Dekel-Chen
10 A Dream of Belonging: Holocaust Memory and the Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland, by Anat Plocker
11 Józef Lebenbaum: A Freedom Campaigner in Sweden, 1969–1989, by Paweł Sowiński
12 The Links between the State of Israel and Soviet Jews and the Struggle of Israeli Diplomacy for Aliya from the USSR, 1948–1967, by Boris Morozov
13 From Jewish Evacuees in Soviet Kyrgyzstan During World War II to Contributors to the Modern Kyrgyz Dream, by Kunduz Niiazova
14 When a Refusenik Becomes a Refugee: American Jews’ Interactions with Soviet Jewish Migrants During the 1970s, by Amy Fedeski
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