Notes, Jews in the USSR, 1917-2000
Sovietization mostly on urban centers, more keenly felt
than on periphery. Farmers in Bessarabia, barely felt Sovietization, have a talk,
mainly to get wine, gratice. 60,000 Polish Js removed, 39-41. 150,000 Js from
annexed territories arrive in unoccupied parts. Birobidzhan? Political theater. Where
to resettle millions of Js? Esp Ger, Romanian, Pol Js. No thought to SU Js. Birobidzhan
bubbled up, some infrastructure, autonomous region to 36, benign. JDC, presence,
resettling Js, feelers to SU, knows not ideal. Phillipines, Ghiana, Madagascar, not a
lot of viable options. Not mentioned in Evian, under League of Nations, all about Js
though not said. SU not interested in Ger/Pol Js, SU knows there will be war against
capitalist world, Ger/Pol capitalists sort of. Dominican Republic the answer, 400-500
in 1940, never goes anywhere. Highest rate of Aliyah from former SU from
Birobidzhan.
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