Language:
Russian
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Judaica Rossica
Angaben zur Quelle:
3 (2003) 118-123
Keywords:
Jews History
;
Jews History 1945-
;
Antisemitism
Abstract:
In the late 1940s-early 1950s the authorities in Georgia conducted a campaign, without authorization from Moscow, to close synagogues. During the "Doctors' plot" affair, in January-March 1953, they intensified this campaign, confiscating religious objects and money and valuables belonging to the synagogues. After the affair ended in April, Georgian Jews directed a letter to Moscow demanding the return of the confiscated property. Part of the property was restored. The conflict was stifled, but the antisemitic campaign of the early 1950s made Georgia an epicenter of ritual murder accusations and violence against synagogues in the USSR of the 1960s.
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