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Self-Mutilation as a Jewish Cultural Strategy and the Sad History of the Yevsektsiya

Self-Mutilation as a Jewish Cultural Strategy and the Sad History of the Yevsektsiya
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The Forgotten Friendship: Israel and the Soviet Bloc: Part I: The Roots of Soviet Anti-Zionism | The Jewish Press - JewishPress com | Alex Grobman PhD | 26 Heshvan 5783 – November 20, 2022

The Forgotten Friendship: Israel and the Soviet Bloc: Part I: The Roots of Soviet Anti-Zionism | The Jewish Press - JewishPress com | Alex Grobman PhD | 26 Heshvan 5783 – November 20, 2022
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9780520209893: Stalin s Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland: An Illustrated History, 1928 1996 - AbeBooks

Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland: An Illustrated History, 1928 1996 by Weinberg, Robert at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 0520209893 - ISBN 13: 9780520209893 - University of California Press - 1998 - Hardcover

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For Jews from former USSR, New Year s Eve always involves a Christmas-style tree

12,826 shares Russian solders, left, take pictures with a tree decorated for Christmas and New Year celebrations in Moscow, Russia, December 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin) JTA Growing up in metro Detroit, I used to watch my Jewish mother, who immigrated from Riga, Latvia, decorate a tree in our living room each December. “But we’re Jewish, so why do we have a Christmas tree?” I recall thinking. While I didn’t understand the tradition at first, I grew to understand it over time. It wasn’t about assimilation, and it wasn’t even a Christmas tree: It was a yolka, a secular symbol connected to Novy God, or the Russian New Year.

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For Jews from the former Soviet Union, New Year s Eve always involves a Christmas-esque tree

A yolka tree in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (Yelena VereshchakaTASS via Getty Images) Advertisement (JTA) Growing up in metro Detroit, I used to watch my Jewish mother, who immigrated from Riga, Latvia, decorate a tree in our living room each December. “But we’re Jewish, so why do we have a Christmas tree?” I recall thinking. While I didn’t understand the tradition at first, I grew to understand it over time. It wasn’t about assimilation, and it wasn’t even a Christmas tree: It was a yolka, a secular symbol connected to Novy God, or the Russian New Year. Across the former Soviet Union, Novy God was a spectacle that kicked into full swing at the start of December. Families served plates of mandarins and bowls of candy. Children sang songs and held hands and danced together in a circle to traditional music. Statues and ornaments of Snegurochka, a Russian snow maiden popular in fairy tales, and Ded Moroz, or Grandfather Frost, glittered in nearly

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