Download or read book Jews Under Tsars and Communists written by Robert Weinberg and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the evolving nature of popular and official beliefs about the purported nature of the Jews from the 18th century onwards, Russia and the Jewish Question explores how perceptions of Jews in late Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union shaped the regimes' policies toward them. In so doing Robert Weinberg provides a fruitful lens through which to investigate the social, economic, political, and cultural developments of modern Russia. Here, Weinberg reveals that the 'Jewish Question' – and, by extension anti-Semitism – emerged at the end of the 18th century when the partitions of Poland made hundreds of thousands of Jews subjects of the Russian crown. He skillfully argues the phrase itself implies the singular nature of Jews as a group of people whose religion, culture, and occupational make-up prevent them from fitting into predominantly Christian societies. The book then expounds how other characteristics were associated with the group over time: in particular, debates about rights of citizenship, the impact of industrialization, the emergence of the nation-state, and the proliferation of new political ideologies and movements contributed to the changing nature of the 'Jewish Question'. Its content may have not remained static, but its purpose consistently questions whether or not Jews pose a threat to the stability and well-being of the societies in which they live and this, in a specifically Russian context, is what Weinberg examines so expertly.
Download or read book The Russian Jew Under Tsars and Soviets written by Salo Wittmayer Baron and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jews under Tsars and Communists written by Robert Weinberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the evolving nature of popular and official beliefs about the purported nature of the Jews from the 18th century onwards, Russia and the Jewish Question explores how perceptions of Jews in late Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union shaped the regimes' policies toward them. In so doing Robert Weinberg provides a fruitful lens through which to investigate the social, economic, political, and cultural developments of modern Russia. Here, Weinberg reveals that the 'Jewish Question' and, by extension anti-Semitism emerged at the end of the 18th century when the partitions of Poland made hundreds of thousands of Jews subjects of the Russian crown. He skillfully argues the phrase itself implies the singular nature of Jews as a group of people whose religion, culture, and occupational make-up prevent them from fitting into predominantly Christian societies. The book then expounds how other characteristics were associated with the group over time: in particular, debates about rights of citizenship, the impact of industrialization, the emergence of the nation-state, and the proliferation of new political ideologies and movements contributed to the changing nature of the 'Jewish Question'. Its content may have not remained static, but its purpose consistently questions whether or not Jews pose a threat to the stability and well-being of the societies in which they live and this, in a specifically Russian context, is what Weinberg examines so expertly.
Download or read book The Jews in Soviet Russia Since 1917 written by Lionel Kochan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical analysis of the position and living conditions of Russian Jews in the USSR since 1917 - covers government policy of discrimination against the jewish minority group, demographic aspects and occupational structure, cultural factors and achievements in literature, legal status, religion, the problem of language, jewish emigration, the role of USSR and Russian foreign policy in Arab country and in Israel, etc. Bibliography after each chapter.
Download or read book The Silent Millions written by Joel Cang and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jews in Soviet Russia Since 1917 written by Institute of Jewish Affairs and published by London ; New York : Oxford University Press for the Institute of Jewish Affairs. This book was released on 1972 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dark Times Dire Decisions written by Jonathan Frankel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest volume of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features essays on the varied and often controversial ways Communism and Jewish history interacted during the 20th century. The volume's contents examine the relationship between Jews and the Communist movement in Poland, Russia, America, Britain, France, the Islamic world, and Germany.
Download or read book The Jews and Other Minor Nationalities Under the Soviets written by Avrahm Yarmolinsky and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jews in the Soviet Union Since 1917 written by Nora Levin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hoax of Soviet Anti Semitism written by Frank Britton and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully-documented and referenced exposé of the Zionist lie that the Soviet Union was "anti-Semitic." It conclusively proves that in fact the USSR was pro-Jewish, but anti-Zionist-particularly after Zionism became increasingly racist, and militarily aggressive towards Israel's neighbors, and, most importantly, after the Zionist-Jewish lobby became intertwined with and controlling of, the US government. Starting with an overview of the historical background of the Jewish nature of Communism (drawing upon the British Government's 1919 White Paper on Bolshevism and the May 1907 edition of National Geographic magazine-which both pointed out the Jewish role in fermenting revolution in Tsarist Russia), the book discusses the internal conflicts in Jewish Communist circles, and of the eventual break between the socialist Zionists and the Jewish Communists. It contains full quotes from Winston Churchill (who accurately predicted the split between Zionist Jews and Communist Jews in 1920); Leon Trotsky, the Jewish brain behind the October Revolution who supported the Jewish colonization of Palestine "through socialism"; and Esther Frumpkin, a leading light in the Jewish Bund and the official Jewish section of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (who represented the anti-Zionist faction). Next it shows how the Soviet Union first attempted to deal with the Jewish demands for a homeland by creating one within the Soviet Union, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Birobidzhan-which still exists to the present-day. At the same time, the Soviet Union and its Communist Iron Curtain bloc subject nations were the first countries in the world to formally recognize the state of Israel in 1948. However, Israel's increasing racism, ultra-nationalism and aggression towards its neighbors reopened the old split between Zionist and Communist Jews. By the late 1960s, relations between Israel and the Soviet Union had broken down, and the Zionist-Jewish dominated western media launched its "antisemitism in Russia" campaign. The culmination of this clash came in 1983 when a large number of leading Communist Jews in the Soviet Union-including Army Generals, members of the Soviet parliament and others-created the "Anti-Zionist Committee of Soviet Public Opinion" (AZCSPO). This organization was set up to counter the Zionist claims of "anti-Semitism" and to act as a conduit for Soviet Jews to express their opposition to Zionism. This work contains the full text of all three AZCSPO information pieces distributed in the West, which show: -that Communist Jews within the USSR held the highest positions of public office and were privileged in that they were the best educated of all Soviet citizens; -that Jewish culture was promoted and thrived in the USSR; -that the Soviet Union expressly supported Israel's right to exist; -that it was only the aggressive, supremacist aspect of Zionism which the Soviet Union-and Soviet Jews-opposed; and -that the Soviet Union was fully aware that a Zionist-Jewish lobby controlled the US government and the western mass media. Fully illustrated (including all the original photographs contained in the AZCSPO booklets) and indexed. Contents: 1: Jews, Zionism, Communism, Israel and the Soviet Union 2: Winston Churchill-"Zionism versus Bolshevism: A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People" (1920) 3: Leon Trotsky-"On the Jewish Question" (1934) 4: Esther Frumkin-Address on "National Minorities" to the Second Congress of the Communist International (1920) 5: Birobidzhan-The Soviet Homeland for Jews Set Up to Counter Zionism 6: "Anti-Zionist Committee of Soviet Public Opinion: Aims and Tasks" (1983) 7: "Supported by the Soviet People: Anti-Zionist Committee of Soviet Public Opinion" (1983) 8: "An Open Letter to Jews in the United States" (1983) Index
Download or read book A Century of Ambivalence written by Zvi Y. Gitelman and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic history, based mainly on the New York YIVO Institute archives. Surveys Jewish life in Russia, focusing on the pogroms of 1881-82 and 1905 and their effects (e.g. the Jewish revolutionary movements, the Bund, and Zionism), and the Beilis trial of 1911. Pp. 96-108 discuss the ambivalent Jewish reaction to the Bolshevik Revolution. Although the Bolsheviks were hostile to Jewish concerns, the new regime offered great opportunities to literate Jews, while the Whites and the Ukrainians were responsible for pogroms and exploited antisemitism to rally anti-Bolshevik support. Ch. 4 (pp. 175-223) describes the fate of the Jews of the USSR during the Holocaust, Jewish resistance, participation in the partisan movement and in the Red Army. Also surveys Stalin's anti-Jewish campaign from 1948 on, the Doctor's Plot, Soviet anti-Zionism, the emigration movement, and prospects for Jewish life in the USSR.
Download or read book The Jew and Communism written by Melech Epstein and published by New York : Trade Union Sponsoring Committee. This book was released on 1959 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jewish Problem in the Soviet Union written by Ben Zion Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Wedding in Darkness written by Samuil Khasin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within merely a few decades after the Russian Revolution, the mighty Russian Jewish community, world-largest and millennium-old, turned into a faint shadow of itself. Never before had world Jewry experienced such a rapid, catastrophic collapse of such an immense and long-established community. Never before had so many young Jews rushed so eagerly after false prophets-in this case Communist ideologues — leaving in their wake the ruins of their own nation and contributing to horrific cataclysms throughout the world. In this frank account, Samuil Khasin offers a remarkable personal view of the forces behind the astonishing collapse. Through the lens of one representative family's life, he sheds a penetrating light on the dramatic evolution of his generation and country from enthusiastic acceptance of Bolshevism to devastations of Stalin's terror to bitter disillusionment and rejection. Speaking as one of those who were both victims and participants of the momentous events, he helps to explore the mystery and the horror of the tragically intertwined historical disasters-the rise of Soviet Communism and the collapse of the Russian Jewry.
Download or read book The Jews in the Soviet Union written by Solomon M. Schwarz and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Century of Ambivalence written by Zvi Gitelman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Illuminated by an extraordinary collection of photographs that vividly reflect the hopes, triumphs and agonies of Russian Jewish life.” —David E. Fishman, Hadassah Magazine A century ago the Russian Empire contained the largest Jewish community in the world, numbering about five million people. Today, the Jewish population of the former Soviet Union has dwindled to half a million, but remains probably the world’s third largest Jewish community. In the intervening century the Jews of that area have been at the center of some of the most dramatic events of modern history—two world wars, revolutions, pogroms, political liberation, repression, and the collapse of the USSR. They have gone through tumultuous upward and downward economic and social mobility and experienced great enthusiasms and profound disappointments. In startling photographs from the archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and with a lively and lucid narrative, A Century of Ambivalence traces the historical experience of Jews in Russia from a period of creativity and repression in the second half of the 19th century through the paradoxes posed by the post-Soviet era. This redesigned edition, which includes more than 200 photographs and two substantial new chapters on the fate of Jews and Judaism in the former Soviet Union, is ideal for general readers and classroom use. Published in association with YIVO Institute for Jewish Research “Anyone with even a passing interest in the history of Russian Jewry will want to own this splendid . . . book.” —Los Angeles Times “A lucid and reasonably objective popular history that expertly threads its way through the dizzying reversals of the Russian Jewish experience.” —The Village Voice
Download or read book Lenin s Jewish Question written by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grandson of a Jew, whose Jewish relatives converted to Christianity, whose allies played down his Jewish origins just as fervently as his enemies played them up, V.I. Lenin makes for a fascinating case study of the many complexities associated with 'Jewish question' in Russia.
