Doubly Chosen: Jewish Identity, the Soviet Intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox Church

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The book explores the conversion of Russian Jewish intellectuals to Orthodox Christianity during the 1960s and 1980s, highlighting this phenomenon as an act of moral courage amidst Soviet oppression. Judith Deutsch Kornblatt examines the decline of Jewish religious practices, the shift from a religious to an ethnic identity, and the desire for spiritual values. She emphasizes the connections between Jewish converts and Russian Christian dissidents, illustrating how these conversions contributed to the development of a new Jewish identity within the dissident movement.