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The history of the Jews in Russia and areas historically connected with it goes back at least 1,500 years. Jews in Russia have historically constituted a large religious and ethnic diaspora; the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world.
- anti-Jewish Pogroms
Joseph Joffo describes the early history of his mother, a...
- Arkady Rotenberg
Arkady Romanovich Rotenberg (Russian: Аркадий Романович...
- Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
This museum, dedicated to the complex history of Russian...
- anti-Jewish Pogroms
Despite being a very long distance from Israel geographically, almost from the moment it came into being, Russia found itself linked to Jews. When, in the 10th century, its ruler, Prince...
The dominant narrative of Russian-Jewish history is one of repression, pogroms, state antisemitism and mass emigration. But this account obscures not only Russia’s centrality within Jewish history, but also the profound contributions of Jews to Russian culture and history.
The history of the Jews in the Soviet Union is inextricably linked to much earlier expansionist policies of the Russian Empire conquering and ruling the eastern half of the European continent already before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. [1] "
Nov 6, 2017 · ( JTA) — Of all the many loaded issues tied to the bloody history of Jews in the former Soviet Union, none is as sensitive today in that part of the world as their role in the 1917 revolution...
Two Hundred Years Together (Russian: Двести лет вместе, Dvesti let vmeste) is a two-volume historical essay by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It was written as a comprehensive history of Jews in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and modern Russia between the years 1795 and 1995, especially with regard to government attitudes toward Jews.
Sep 3, 2021 · General Overviews. The first Western-published general history of Soviet Jews—rich with facts, institutional histories, and analytical insights—is Schwarz 1951. Gitelman 2001 as well as Levin 1988 and Pinkus 1989 provide fact-rich overviews of the entire Soviet period.
