Notes, Jews in the USSR, 1917-2000
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. Among Js and Rs, kulaks and
others. Stalin, '31.
J schools and synagogues shut down. Trying to eliminate organized religion.
Cohesion to distinctive entity. Catholicism most bitter enemy of SU, Bolshaya
Sovietskaya Entsiklopedia. Stalin more anti-Semitic in 30s. Zinoviev, Kamenev,
Trotsky all Js. Purges, affected all people, as did deportations at start of WWII. Gauge
compare to other nationalities.
Naomi Riga, 45, J edu system, better living conditions? Star of David hanging,
ulpans, prayers, bball, etc.
17 June Levis broke the SU. If standard of living would have been better, would
there have been a J movement? Gma, waiting in lines. Stagnation, great gaps.
Command economy
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