Judaism and Jewishness in the USSR

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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• The Jewish Religion in the Soviet Union

  Борис Сапир, Boris Sapir et al.•The American Historical Review•1974

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• The Jewish Minority in the Soviet Union

  Gerald P Rosen, Thomas E Sawyer•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•1981

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