{"product_id":"keeping-contact-rebekah-klein-pejsovza-9781626712652","title":"Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders","description":"\u003ci\u003eKeeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders\u003c\/i\u003e builds upon discussions of Jewish survival and cultural viability after the Holocaust in Eastern and Central Europe, including the Soviet Union. This book confronts both a shifting postwar geopolitical landscape and the remnants of devastated European Jewish populations with their global diasporas, tragically and radically transformed. The volume traces the flow of ideas, people, cultural practices and materials, and even bodily remains across securitized Cold War borders, as the postwar geography of European Jewish life largely shifted to Israel and North America. How did Jews and Jewish institutions across hostile Cold War geopolitical boundaries seek and maintain contact with each other? Contact meant continuity. Contact was a means of mapping the Cold War terrain, of exploring strategies of adaptation, conservation, and reconstruction. It meant rabbis' reprised visits to the USSR, wholesale movement of libraries, dissent, dashed dreams of belonging, and urns of ashes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebekah Klein-Pejsová\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1626712654\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781626712652\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Purdue University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Rebekah Klein-Pejsová","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520061026559,"sku":"9781626712652","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_107dc98c-dd93-4913-a11d-469c12b5f177.jpg?v=1778740501","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/keeping-contact-rebekah-klein-pejsovza-9781626712652","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}