11.01.2021
From Stalinist oppression to a Jewish Renaissance in the (former) Soviet Union
Between the Russian Communist Revolution of 1917 to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, generations of Soviet Jews had lost touch with their Jewish heritage. The Jews populating Russia and the Pale of Settlement—which covered parts of Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, and Belarus—had known discrimination and pogroms. But for the most part, until the […]