| #3708810 in Books | 2004-01-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.70 x6.00l,.65 | File type: PDF | 200 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A basic overview of an interesting phonemonon, but frustratingly padded out and repetitive|By Christopher Culver|The Soviet dissidents who entered the Russian Orthodox Church between the 1960s and the collapse of the USSR included not only lapsed Christians unsatisfied with the official culture of atheism but many thousands of Jews as well. Judith Deutsch Kornblatt's DOUBLY CHO|||"The phenomenon of Orthodox Christian Jews has been overlooked or ignored by investigators of Soviet and post-Soviet Jewry. As Kornblatt’s interviews reveal, however, these converts were fashioning a specifically Jewish form of identity for themselves w
Doubly Chosen provides the first detailed study of a unique cultural and religious phenomenon in post-Stalinist Russia—the conversion of thousands of Russian Jewish intellectuals to Orthodox Christianity, first in the 1960s and later in the 1980s. These time periods correspond to the decades before and after the great exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union. Judith Deutsch Kornblatt contends that the choice of baptism into the Church ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Doubly Chosen: Jewish Identity, the Soviet Intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox Church | Judith Deutsch Kornblatt. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
