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Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police

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Jewish life in Belarus after World War II was an inaccessible subject officially regarded as being completely non-existent and in the ideological atmosphere of the time research into the subject was impossible. Jewish community life had been wiped out by the Nazis, and its unreasonable attempt to come back to life was given short shrift by the communists. For more than half a century the truth about Jewish life during this period was sealed in archives to which researchers had no access. The Jews of Belarus preferred to ...

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Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police 2014, Central European University Press, Budapest

ISBN-13: 9786155225994

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