Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
East European Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
35,1 (2005) 91-110
Schlagwort(e):
Yom Kippur History
;
Jews
;
Jews History
;
Jews History 1945-
;
Synagogues
Kurzfassung:
Focuses on the long process (1949-62) of the closing of the Lviv synagogue, a "catastrophe" that took place not under Stalin, but under Khrushchev. The chain of events began in 1949 when a local official, Petro Kucheriavy, was attacked during an altercation outside the synagogue on Yom Kippur. He then attempted to have the synagogue moved to the periphery. The synagogue was closed temporarily but reopened by early 1950. It was finally closed in 1962, after Jews from the synagogue were accused of financial misdeeds. Notes that such financial "speculation" was rife at the time, especially among the party elite. The Jews were, to some degree, scapegoated; however, they were not singled out at every stage. Before the closing, the Lviv press had begun to focus on the synagogue as a center of speculation. Claims that this case calls for a revision of views of Soviet antisemitism; the role of Stalinism is equalled by the persistence of older, pre-Soviet, prejudices, such as that exhibited by Kucheriavy.
DOI:
10.1080/13501670500191835
URL:
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