Ukraine, 122, 217
anti-Semitism in, 289, 360
and Bolsheviks, 310
education in, 223
ethnoterritorial units in, 247
and Great Terror, 273, 274
national republic for Jews in, 248
occupations in, 225
peasants in, 289
pogroms in, 289
traders in, 218
Ukrainian Borotbists, 273
Ukrainians, 173, 174, 299, 336
Ulanovskaia, Esther (Hope), 171–72, 227, 259–60, 264, 265, 271, 344, 345, 361
Ulanovskaia, Maia, 344–45, 354
Ulanovsky, Izrail Khaikelevich (Alesha), 191
Ulyanova, Anna Ilinichna, 163, 245–46
Umansky, K. A., 291
United States: anti-Semitism in, 262, 316, 326, 369
Bromberg on, 210–11, 213–14
capitalism in, 207, 263, 265, 350
Catholics in, 370
and communism, 89, 209, 262, 314–15, 348, 350, 352
culture of, 213–15, 276
education in, 318
equality in, 336–37
ethnicity in, 207, 336–37
in Fiddler on the Roof, 325–27
Fraser on, 57
Freudianism in, 81, 104, 209, 319–20, 322
individual in, 207
Jewish student radicalism in, 348
Jewish success in, 118, 260–62, 315–16, 327, 367–68
Jewish wealth in, 367–68
Kazin on, 214
language of, 276
liberalism in, 2, 104, 207, 318–19, 338, 348, 350
life in, 210–11
materialism in, 213
Mercurianism of, 207, 215, 367, 368, 369
meritocracy in, 369
migration to, 2, 116–17, 149, 207, 210–11, 213–15, 260–66, 315, 357, 358–59, 368
nationalism in, 315, 322
nationality in, 350
national religion of, 67
parent-child conflict in, 262, 265
professions in, 207
Protestants in, 370
purge of communists in, 314–15
religion in, 67, 207
Russian culture in, 213–15
secondary loyalties in, 322
and Sholem Aleichem, 205, 326
socialism in, 215
and Soviet Jewish emigration, 356–57
and Soviet Jews, 352
as strangers, 207
and trade with Soviet Union, 357
tribalism in, 209
Ulanovskaia on, 259–60
Zionism in, 209. See also Jews (American)
universalism, 21, 24, 64, 70, 299
urbanism, 1, 10
of European Jews, 41, 46, 47
and Russian Empire Jews, 115, 116, 117, 118, 149
and Soviet Jews, 2, 210, 211, 212–213, 216–219, 222, 223, 224, 238, 243, 247, 252, 261. See also migration
Uris, Leon, Exodus, 353
Uspensky, A., The Korenkov Affair, 219
usury, 5, 6, 41. See also moneylending
Uzbeks, 336
Vainshtein, Rakhmiel, 345
Vaksberg, Arkady, 250
van den Berghe, Pierre, 25, 35
Varga, E. S., 302
Varshavsky, Anton Moiseevich, 119
Varshavsky family, 121
Vasiliev, Pavel, 249
Vatenberg, Ilya, 312, 313
Vavelberg family, 119
Veblen, Thorstein, 59–60, 91, 342
Vernant, Jean-Pierre, 27
Vienna, 47–48, 49, 50, 51, 63
Vietnam, 33, 38
Vilna, 128–29
violence, 29
anti-Semitic, 37
Benjamin on, 216
in Israel, 328
against Pale Jews, 109–10
against Russian Jews, 116
Russian revolutionary, 157. See also anti-Semitism; pogroms
Vittenberg, Solomon, 147
Volga Germans, 299, 336
Volin, Boris, “The Great Russian People,” 279
Voroshilov, Kliment Yefremovich, 294, 304
Vulfson, Nikolai Lvovich, 250
Vyshinsky, A. Ia., 249, 250
Waata, 17, 22
Wallenberg, Raoul, 304, 305
Warburg family, 121
warrior, 12, 102, 107
wealth, 41
Dostoevsky on, 156, 157
of Jews, 46–49
in modernity, 41
and Protestantism, 44
of Russian Jews, 106
of Soviet Jews, 218, 222. See also business; capitalism; commerce; economy
Weber, Max, 33, 41, 42, 54, 82
Weimar Republic, 85
Weiner, Amir, 289
Weininger, Otto, 73, 74
Weinreich, Max, 19
Weizmann, Chaim, 149–50, 156, 291
West, 142–43, 264
Whites, 174, 178, 180, 360
White Sea Canal, 199
Whitfield, Stephen J., 91
Wiesel, Elie, 352
Wolitz, Seth, 326–27
women, 10, 11, 38, 39, 113, 124. See also gender roles
Wordsworth, William, 66
worker, 37, 47, 116, 333. See also proletariat
World War I, 165–66
World War II, 225, 275, 281, 282, 283, 301
Yagoda, Genrikh Grigorevich (Enokh Gershenovich), 199, 221
Yaroslavsky, Emelian (Minei Izraelevich Gubelman), 176, 245, 251
Yiddish, 18–20
Brezhnev on, 356
as literary language, 100–101
revolt against, 137
and Russian, 128
and Soviet Jewish nationality, 294
Soviet promotion of, 247
Soviet suppression of, 298, 299, 300. See also Hebrew
Yokhelson, Vladimir, 137, 154
Yom Kippur War, 365
Young People’s Socialist League, 265
youth: in Aliger, 282
and American Jews, 263
and Apollo, 24
in Bolshevism, 211–12
and Israel, 327
in modernity, 142, 143
in Russian Empire, 144, 145–46
and Soviet elite, 234–35
and Soviet Union, 230
and Zionism, 149, 211–12. See also father: revolt against
Yudovin, Solomon, 126
Yurovsky, Yakov, 178, 180
Zagursky. See Stoliarsky, P. S.
Zak, Abram Isaakovich, 119
Zaltsman, Isaak Moiseevich, 303
Zamenhof, Ludwick, 64, 98–99
Zaslavsky, Victor, 341
Zbarsky, B. I., 302
Zborowski, Mark, 107, 324–25
Life Is with People, 323–24
Zemliachka, R. S. (Rozaliia Zalkind), 178, 233
Zeus, 26, 29–30
Zhemchuzhina, Polina (Perl Karpovskaia), 220
Zhirinovsky, Vladimir, 333
Zhitomir, 128–29
Zimbalist, Efrem, 125
Zinoviev, G. E. (Ovsei-Gersh Aronovich Radomyslsky), 169, 175–76, 179
Zionism: and American Jews, 359
Apollonianism in, 149, 212, 269
attraction of, 149
brotherhood in, 156
and capitalism, 269
collective redemption in, 211
and communism, 206, 348, 363, 364
escape from strangeness of, 367
evil in, 103
and Great Terror, 273
and Hebrew-based nationalism, 102
Jewish rejection of, 74
as Jewish solution, 2
and Mercurianism, 102, 269
as millenarian, 269
names taken under, 212
and nationalism, 363
in Palestine, 104, 209, 268
and pogroms, 149
and sexuality, 212
and Sholem Aleichem, 204, 205
and Soviet Union, 209, 247, 248, 294–95, 353, 354–55
and State of Israel, 327–28
in United States, 209
Veblen on, 59
Weizmann on, 149, 150
and youth, 149, 211–12. See also Israel; Israel, State of; Palestine
Zoshchenko, M., 199