Notes, Jews in the USSR, 1917-2000
1937 census didn't get published. 1939, pretty accurate for Js. 3.1 mill Js in pre-
Molotov-Ribbentrop area. 1939, 2.2 mill. Js not shy about declaring Jewishness.
Inherits 1.3 mill in Poland. Similar # annexed by Germ. 250,000 in Lithuania.
330,000 Bessarabia. Back to pre-1917 #s of Sov Jewry. 5 ½ mill of pre-war levels.
Pre-mature deaths during famine of '21-'22, '31-'33, 7 years of war, emigration up
to 1924 (vast majority to West, 3rd and 4th aliyahs). J pop growth still significant, high
birth rates, but pop static. Grows more in SU than anywhere else few leaving, pop
growth significant. Vast majority in W borderlands. Very few emigrate during year
and a half from annexed areas.
Germans occupied Leningrad-Moscow-Stalingrad, all and more of former Pale. 1939,
started evacuating. Stalin thought 43-44, war. Purges, Winter War, military needed
improvement, military industrial complex and factories and personnel moved E.
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