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Judaism and Jewishness in the USSR: Ethnicity and Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Zvi Gitelman
Zvi Gitelman*
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University of Michigan
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American Jews often treat their religion and ethnicity as coterminous. In the Soviet Union religion and ethnicity are formally more distinct, through in most people's minds the two are closely related. American society generally considers Jews both an ethnic and religious group. There is a strong correlation between religion and ethnicity among other groups—for example between Irish and Polish ethnicity, on the one hand, and Catholicism, on the other. But since Catholicism is a universal religion—to say “Irish” or “Polish” is usually is to say “Catholic”—the converse is not true, since to say “Catholic” may also imply French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian or many other ethnicities.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 20 , Issue 1: Special Issue - Religious Consciousness In The Glasnost Era , Spring 1992 , pp. 75 - 86
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Copyright © 1992 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities of the USSR and Eastern Europe, Inc. 

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