Notes, Jews in the USSR, 1917-2000
Dec 27 1932. Basis for unofficial discrimination of Js. Not directed
towards J. Cities crowded? Stop moving around, anonymity. Affect on Js during
Holocaust. ID, ability to succeed, edu and employment. Other nationalities
encouraged to increase #s in universities. Take from other.
Sources? Proximity in time, books for issuing passports, esp in Baltics, etc.
Nationality not listed in intl passports. IL just removed nationality from internal
passports. DK party archives, municipal archives propiski, what's approved,
what's denied.
Tsvi's presentation was the USSR an anti-Semitic regime? Complexity. Not the
same as 1881. Suffered along w many other nationalities in USSR. Arbitrariness,
repression, etc. Govt saw some things as threat. Gitelman never a regime that
tried to combat anti-Semitism more than early Bolsheviks. Antisemitism at odds w
Communist ideals. Tried to distance self from tsarist regime. Lenin 1919, not Js
who are enemy of working people, but capitalists
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