Soviet Jews

Diseases of Jews DENNIS

The relative social and genetic isolation of Jews from other communities, which was much more marked in the past than now, has led to the belief that they are unusually prone to a variety of illnesses. Until the last few decades assessments of the incidence of various diseases among them were usually based on impressions rather than planned surveys or careful analyses, and many misconceptions s...

Jews and Sport

A special journal issue that is dedicated to the last hundred years of Jewish experiences in sports deserves more than just a perfunctory introduction. Introductions by nature are depthless attempts to present an overview on a subject matter, often forcing us to gloss over underlying issues and subtexts not immediately notable to the reader. A mere introduction would hardly do justice, on the o...

Gidó Attila THE JEWS

Table of content: 1. The frames of the research 2. The historiography of the Romanian and Hungarian Jewish communities; the sources of the research 3. The Jews of Cluj till the WWI 4. The demographical structure and the topography of the Jewish population of Cluj 5. The Jews occupational structure and their role in the economy 6. Interdictions, Segregation and Anti-Semitism in Cluj 7. The Jewis...

Soviet Science

Ten years ago Dr. Belding brought out the first edition of this text and in the present volume follows the original plan of presenting "the protozoan, helminthic, and arthropod parasites of man, and the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of the diseases they produce." Although more material has been compressed into each page and thinner paper permits a convenient reduction in its thickness, t...

Religious Culture: Faith in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia