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The Soviet dissidents who entered the Russian Orthodox Church between the 1960s and the collapse of the USSR included not only lapsed Christians unsatisfied with the official culture of atheism but many thousands of Jews as well. Judith Deutsch Kornblatt's Doubly Chosen is a study of this phenomenon, based on interviews with these converts still in Russia or having emigrated to the USA or Israel.

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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Doubly Chosen provides the first detailed study of a unique cultural and religious phenomenon in post-Stalinist Russia-the conversion of thousands of Russian Jewish intellectuals to Orthodox Christianity.

By Judith Deutsch Kornblatt. Article in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74(1):224-227 · March 2006 with 20 Reads. How we measure 'reads'.

Judith Deutsch Kornblatt contends that the choice of baptism into the Church was an act of moral . Russian national culture; and the forging of a new Jewish identity within the context of the Soviet dissident movement.

Judith Deutsch Kornblatt contends that the choice of baptism into the Church was an act of moral courage in the face of Soviet persecution, motivated by solidarity with the values espoused by Russian Christian dissidents and intellectuals.

Judith Deutsch Kornblatt. Doubly Chosen provides the first detailed study of a unique cultural and religious phenomenon in post-Stalinist Russia-the conversion of thousands of Russian Jewish intellectuals to Orthodox Christianity, first in the 1960s and later in the 1980s. These time periods correspond to the decades before and after the great exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union.

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1. Introduction: Russian Jewish Christians (page 3). Read. 2. The Jewish Question in Russia: Separation of National and Religious Identity (page 33). 3. The Path of Faith: The 1960s Generation (page 52). 4. The Path of Faith: The 1980s Generation (page 84). 5. The Paths Diverge: The Conflict of Identity (page 100). 6. Concluding Thoughts: The Responsibility of Chosenness (page 131). Appendix A: Sample Transcript: Interview with "Marina" (page 145).

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book by Judith Deutsch Kornblatt. Doubly Chosen provides the first detailed study of a unique cultural and religious phenomenon in post-Stalinist Russiathe conversion of thousands of Russian Jewish intellectuals to Orthodox Christianity, first in the 1960s and later in the 1980s.