The Jews of the Soviet Union: The History of a National Minority
Benjamin Pinkus. Cambridge University Press, $55 (416pp) ISBN 978-0-521-38926-6
In this ``authoritative history of Soviet Jewry,'' the author traces the remarkable blossoming of Jewish culture in the U.S.S.R. despite inbred, institutionalized anti-Semitism. ``Pinkus re-creates the precarious history of the Soviet Jews more fully and vividly than previous writers,'' commented PW. (Jan.)
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Reviewed on: 01/30/1990
Genre: Nonfiction
