Soviet Jews in, 224, 225, 226, 237, 301–8, 309, 314, 329, 335, 336 in Soviet Union, 237, 331–35 of United States, 207. See also occupation(s); specific professions proletariat, 37, 100, 148, 163–64, 252, 263 Prometheus, 8, 23 Protestantism: American, 370 and American Jews, 263, 357, 359 in England, 65 and European Jews, 54, 56 and liberalism, 43–44 and Mercurianism, 33–34 and modernity, 41–42, 43 Peters on, 56 Sombart on, 54 and tribalism, 43 Weber on, 41, 42 Protestant Reformation, 65 Proust, Marcel, 76–77, 341 Prussia, 48, 49–50, 50 purity/pollution, 13, 15–16, 21, 41, 45, 56, 108, 109, 229, 314 Pushkin, Alexander: Babel on, 135 in communist culture, 98 death of, 74 devotion to, 127, 129, 131–32, 135, 136, 144, 172, 240, 343 Eugene Onegin , 240 and Jewish assimilation, 68 and modern culture, 71 as national messiah, 67 as national poet, 74 in rise of nationalism, 45 Samoilov on, 282 Sholem Aleichem as, 148, 247, 267 and Soviet cultural elite, 231, 232, 233, 239