Language:
English
Year of publication:
1983
Titel der Quelle:
Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union
Angaben zur Quelle:
3 (1983) 3-50
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Jews History 1945-
;
Anti-Jewish propaganda
;
Conspiracy theories
Abstract:
Discusses how Soviet authorities used the theory of a world Jewish conspiracy, based largely on the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", to make excuses for various failures from the late 1940s to the 1970s. The anti-cosmopolitan campaign which began in 1949 became an anti-Jewish campaign. Jews were accused of attempting to destroy Soviet culture. The Doctors’ Plot of 1953 was followed by a spate of antisemitic propaganda in the press, which intensified after the Six-Day War in 1967. In the 1970s many works appeared which were obviously based on the "Protocols", with the theme of Jewish world domination. Relates how texts in the "Protocols" influenced the works of Soviet writers and journalists, although the authenticity of the "Protocols" was not officially recognized by Soviet authorities. The Jewish conspiracy theory was used to explain the failures of Communism and to unite the people against a common enemy.
Note:
Appeared as "''The universal Jewish conspiracy' in Soviet anti-Semitic propaganda" in the American edition of this collection (New York: Freedom Library Press of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, 1984), pp. 394-421.
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In Hebrew:
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"אנטישמיות בברית המועצות" (תשמו)
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