Keeping Contact

Keeping Contact is a scholarly history volume that examines Jewish cultural initiatives across the borders of the Cold War. This work focuses on the survival and viability of Jewish populations in Central and Eastern Europe, including the Soviet Union, following the Holocaust. It analyzes how devastated communities and their global diasporas navigated a shifting geopolitical landscape to maintain vital connections.

The text explores the movement of people, ideas, and cultural materials across securitized boundaries during a period of intense political tension. By studying the role of Judaism and religious groups studies, the book details strategies of adaptation and reconstruction. It tracks the flow of libraries and the visits of rabbis to the USSR, illustrating how maintaining contact served as a means of continuity for Jewish life in Europe, Israel, and North America.