Description: "By making use of newly available archival documents and incorporating recent scholarship on the Jewish experience in the Soviet Union, this book chronicles the encounter of one of the largest Jewish communities in the world with war, revolution, and Soviet power from 1917 through 1930"--
Brief description: Elissa Bemporad is Jerry and William Ungar Chair in Eastern European Jewish History and the Holocaust and Professor of History in the Department of History at Queens College and The Graduate Center - CUNY. She is the author of Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Land of the Soviets.
Review Quotes: "Bem-po-rad reveals a world sus-pend-ed between vio-lence, oppor-tu-ni-ty, and tra-di-tion -- and a peo-ple remade not in a sin-gle rev-o-lu-tion-ary moment, but through a decade of uncer-tain-ty, adap-ta-tion, and survival."-- "Jewish Book Council"