Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Jews in Eastern Europe (Jerusalem)
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 [33] (1997) 66-76
Keywords:
Antisemitism
;
Zionism
Abstract:
Presents a secret report (pp. 69-76), dated 18 March 1953, on the arrest of eight "Jewish bourgeois nationalist-Zionists" in Kiev, submitted by the Kiev Provincial Party Committee to the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine. Pp. 66-69 contain an introduction which stresses the fact that only two of those arrested were actually Zionists in their ideology or actions, and one belonged to the Zionist movement in his youth. Others were arrested for other reasons, but because they were Jewish they were also accused of Zionism. Calls on researchers to evaluate Soviet police accounts of Zionist activities with caution, because in the period under discussion accusations of being a "Zionist" made no more sense than accusations of "spying, " being an "enemy of the people, " and so on.
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