This is a comprehensive and topical history of the Jews in the Soviet
Union and is based on firsthand documentary evidence and the application
of a pioneering research method into the fate of national minorities.
Within a four-part chronological framework, Professor Pinkus examines
not only the legal-political status of the Jews, and their reciprocal
relationship with the Soviet majority, but also the impact of internal
economic, demographic and social processes upon the religious,
educational and cultural life of Soviet Jewry. A second layer of
analysis describes in depth the complex linkages between the Jews of the
Soviet Union, the Jews in other diasporas and the state of Israel
itself. The Jews of the Soviet Union marks a major contribution to the
historiography and social analysis of its subject and provides a worthy
companion to Professor Pinkus's acclaimed documentary study The Soviet
Union and the Jews 1948-1967.