Jews and Judaism in the Soviet Union

federal subject of Russia

conspiracy theory that Jews have been the driving force behind Communist movements

execution of thirteen Soviet Jews

Soviet organization aiming to influence international public opinion in support of the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany; purged in 1952 by Stalin

thumb|January 10, 1973. Soviet Jewish refusenik demonstration in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the right to emigrate to Israel, before being broken up by Soviet authorities. thumb|A rare type 2 USSR exit visa. This type of visa was issued to those who received permission to leave the USSR permanently and lost their Soviet citizenship. Many people who wanted to emigrate were unable to receive this kind of exit visa. thumb|Letter from the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs|MVD to a 76-year-old man from Sverdlovsk refusing him permission to move to Israel due to "knowledge of sta

antisemitic slur for Jews in the Soviet Union

A Yevsektsiya (, a syllabic abbreviation for "Jewish Section" (). ; ) was the ethnically Jewish section of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its main institutions; it is also sometimes described as the Yiddish-language branch of the CPSU. The section was established in fall of 1918 with consent of Vladimir Lenin to carry Party ideology and Marxist-Leninist atheism to the Soviet Jewish masses. The Yevsektsiya published a Yiddish periodical, der Emes. According to Walter Kolarz, the Yevsektsiya inside the League of Militant Godless, "had a total of 40,000 Jewish members in 1929, the ye

persecution of Jews in Soviet Union

1974 trade provision in US federal law

collection of documents and eyewitness accounts of crimes against the Jewish people on the territory of the USSR and Poland during the Holocaust

soviet anti-Zionist organisation

extent to which Stalin was antisemitic

aspect of history

Jew who was imprisoned or deported for Zionist activity

aspect of history

region of Hungary from 1939 to 1945

thumb|OZET poster in Russian and Yiddish (1929): "A Jewish landworker with every turn of the wheels of a tractor takes part in the building of [[socialism and you will help him. Buy a ticket for the OZET lottery."]] OZET ( romanised: Obshchestvo zemleustroystva yevreyskikh trudyashchikhsya, Yiddish: געזעלשאפט פאר איינארדענען ארבעטנדיקע יידן אויף ערד אין פ.ס.ס.ר romanised: Gezelshaft far aynordnen oyf Erd arbetnidke Yidin in F.S.S.R) was the public Society for Settling Toiling Jews on the Land in the Soviet Union in the period from 1925 to 1938. Some English sources use the word "Working" inste

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immigration of Russian Jews to Israel

theatre company in Moscow, Russia

300px|thumb|Threshing in the fields in a Jewish kolkhoz, c. 1930 Komzet (, ) was the Committee for the Settlement of Toiling Jews on the Land (some English sources use the word "working" instead of "toiling") in the Soviet Union. The primary goal of the Komzet was to provide work for the unemployed agricultural Jewish population of the country.

Soviet show-trial

Russian Jewish education network