| Title |
Communism, anti-Semitism and the Jews. |
|---|---|
| Additional Titles |
Komunizm antysemityzm i Żydzi |
| Original Library/publisher |
Arabowie i Zydzi. Red.: Irena Lasota. New York: Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe, 1990 |
| Host Item |
Commentary 86,2 (1988) 28-39 |
| Description |
Examines the myth of the Jew as Bolshevik which emerged in Eastern and Central Europe at the end of World War I. Few Russian Jews supported Bolshevism, and they swung towards it only after the pogroms in the Ukraine. During the early years of the Soviet regime, Jews were prominent in the party and in the bureaucracy. In Germany and Hungary most middle-class Jews were liberals, but some young Jews who were denied social and professional integration turned to radical socialism. Their involvement in the revolutionary regimes encouraged the rise of radical right-wing antisemitism directed against Jews believed to be in league with Jewish capitalists. Although only a few thousand Jews joined local communist parties, they formed a high proportion of the membership. The "Jew as Bolshevik" theme became a cornerstone of Nazi propaganda, and it inspired collaboration in the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. After World War II, the communist regimes persecuted Jewish organizations and attacked Zionism, but the local population identified the Jews with the repressive pro-Soviet regime. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Appeared in Polish in "Arabowie i Żydzi" (1990) 19-48. An abridged version appeared in Russian in "Dvadtsat Dva" 73 (1990) 95-107. |
| Language |
English Polish Russian |
| National Library system number |
990000095590705171 |
| Links |
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MARC RECORDS
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