Modern Jewish History: Jews in the Former Soviet Union

Reference

• An-Ski Collections
• From the Lands of the Czars
• Immigration to Israel
• Minority Rights
• The Pale of Settlement
• Shtetl
• Socialism

People

• Menahem Mendel Beilis
• Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky

Events

• Anti-Jewish Boycott
• Communist Leader Attacks Jews
• The Doctor’s Plot
• Pogroms
  • Self-Defense

Organizations

• Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
• Benei Moshe
• Berihah
• Bilu
• Bund
• New Israel
• Octobrists
• Refuseniks
• Society for the Attainment of Full Civil Rights for the Jewish People in Russia
• Society for Jewish Folk Music
• Soviet Jewry Movement
• Student Stuggle for Soviet Jewry
• Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
• Union of the Russian People
• United Jewish Socialist Workers’ Party

Primary Sources

• The Jackson-Vanik Amendment
• 98 Senators Express Concern About Russian Anti-Semitism
• Eban Surveys Issues with Secretary of State, U.S. Unwilling to Get Involved with Soviet Jewry
• Israel's Reaction to the Jackson-Vanik Amendment
• Reagan Condemns Soviet Human Rights Policies
• State Department Telegram Regarding Soviet Jewish Immigration to Israel (11/4/71)
• White House Statement on the Release of Anatoly Shcharanskiy From the Soviet Union