#jews in the ussr

[tikkunolamresistance]

We think that it’s worth noting that the Soviet Union actually preserved the Yiddish language.

Whilst it’s true that Jewish life under the Soviet Union was far from perfect, and thus eligible to be critiqued — the diasporic Yiddish language would NOT have survived the Holocaust if it weren’t for the USSR’s support. There was a Yiddish language magazine called “Sovietish Haimland”, from 1961, which published Jewish art, which was particularly encircling Jewish culture. It also carried Yiddish lessons in a serialized textbook. 100s of Yiddish established writers contributed to this magazine. However, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, this magazine no longer recieved that same state support and came to an end.

Again, we cannot act like the Soviet Union were perfect. The USSR was far from it. it is there that we can see where to learn from, where to do better. Communists look at history to learn from it; we see where mistakes were made even by our forefathers that tried to implement revolutionary reforms.

But the USSR actively combatted the Nazi’s attempts to systemically destroy the Yiddish language— and that is noteworthy.

This is from “Soviet but Not Russian: The ‘Other Peoples of the Soviet Union” by William Mandel. We are working on getting this PDF resource in our Drive, along with a Soviet Union section, if people would like to read it themselves.

We must look at our history, especially at our Communist forefathers, and assess what we need to work on as a society to truly liberate everyone from the tyranny of Capitalism. Looking to the Soviet Union, we can see many examples of great progress made as much as we can see great losses.

#Soviet Union #USSR #jews in the ussr #history #yiddish #yiddish language

[nesyanast]

Margarita Iosifovna Aliger (October 7 1915 – August 1, 1992) was a Soviet poet, translator, and journalist. She was born in Odessa in a family of Jewish office workers.

The main themes of her early poetry were the heroism of the Soviet people during industrialization and during World War II. Her most famous poem is "Zoya" (1942), about Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a young girl killed by Nazis. This work was one of the most popular poems during the Soviet era. From 1940 to 1950, the poetry of Aliger was characterised by a mix of optimistic semi-official verses ("Leninskie mountains", 1953), and poems in which Aliger tried to analyse the situation in her country in a realistic way ("Your Victory", 1944 - 1945).

In 1956, in a gathering of Khrushchev with the intelligentsia he admonished the writers for interfering with the political system. It is noted that Aliger was the only writer to speak up against him at the event. It was after his retirement that he apologized to her for his behavior. Aliger wrote numerous essays and articles about Russian literature and her impressions on travelling ("On poetry and poets", 1980; "The return from Chile", 1966).

#jumblr #jewish #jews #nesyapost #jewish history #ww2 #soviet jews #Jewish women #ussr

[lunian]

tbh hearing about all Kanye West stuff going on i’m taken aback about many things but

that “holocaust denial” fucking exists is so insane to me

what the nasty dumb ugly shit is that?? is that american thing or what? do people from other countries have such thing too?

#naw dog i’m serious #it’s so nasty #naz*s also killed so many slavs and people of ussr and just anyone who was against it #and they wouldn’t stop #even if you ignore fucking 6 million jews somehow you fucking moron THERES STILL MANY CORPSES LEFT SO WHAT THE HELL #mystuff

[smonk-wonk]

how are you a holocaust survivor if you're POC?

I'm not a Holocaust survivor I'm 25?

I'm gonna guess you mean descended from Holocaust survivors & victims. In which case it's really sad that you think this way firstly? POC and non Jewish people did in fact die during the holocaust and many were targeted for not fitting the Nazis' idea of the "superior Aryan race".

From The Holocaust Encyclopedia: "When Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power in 1933, there were several thousand Black people living in Germany. The Nazi regime discriminated against them because the Nazis viewed Black people as racially inferior. During the Nazi era (1933–1945), the Nazis used racial laws and policies to restrict the economic and social opportunities of Black people in Germany. They also harassed, imprisoned, sterilized, and murdered an unknown number of Black people."

Also contrary to what some believe, and this may sound farfetched and I hope you're sitting down but bear with me- some people are actually more than one race. Some people are POC and white. We call this being biracial. Or in grade school, being an "Oreo". A mutt if they really want to dehumanize you

But while my relatives weren't targeted for their skin color as they were white, many people were. Black Germans and other POC did exist, were murdered and traumatized, and have passed down that generational trauma. Just as other persecuted populations even if it was much less it was no less a part of the genocide and ethnic cleansing.

#i was actually never called an oreo but my siblings were #the fun thing about my racial ambiguity is no one irl knows what racial slur or term to call me #anyway there were Holocaust victims that were POC and it's even more reason to compare these events. #we have to mention the holocaust by name. we have to say hitler's name. i feel if we don't we're forgetting that this has happened before #because millions did not die during the holocaust just for us to justify more ethnic cleansing. more destruction of people's land& history #we have to look at how history was rewritten and how they allowed a genocide and massive cleansing to happen #and given my background i can't wrap my head around seeing everything that i heard of the nazis and even the USSR doing #and just going “but hamas”. israel is the cause hamas is the effect. i will never be happy that innocent people died #but people are wrong to say it was because they're jewish and muslims/palestinians/arabs hate jews. furthers the us vs them #they were already being killed and there's a reason colonized ppl & BIPOC see through the propaganda #the “they kill babies and rape women and hate you for how you were born and want to take things from you!” #we are familiar with it bc this isn't the first time it's happened and we remember the result of that mentality #and how it was weaponized #when i say mention it i do not mean above the current genocide. but we know how serious the holocaust was #the scale the lasting impact the destruction the things that were uncovered so much later #there is no “aftermath” of gaza yet bc the genocide is ongoing but we've seen the aftermath of genocide before #if we ignore the parallel we are forgetting history and there's a saying about those who forget history #free palestine #palestine #gaza #free gaza

[proustianlesbian]

I think a lot about these pictures of Boris Volynov (Борис Волынов) that i found last month 💙 !!

And these ones when he received the Order of Gagarin on the 17th January 2024 :

If you don't know, Boris Volynov is the first Jewish cosmonaut and unfortunately the last member of the first group of cosmonauts created in March 1960 who is still alive.

also the picture of the parachute training in color that i found just yesterday :

he is one of my favorite cosmonauts, i love him so much, i really hope that one day i can meet him to tell him how he inspired me when i was little and still does now ✡️💙🌌 !!

#boris volynov #Борис Волынов #cosmonauts #ussr history #jewish stuff #jewish history #jews in space #sophia talks #personal #yuri gagarin #jumblr #jewblr

[ketrindoll]

According to uncovered Soviet government documents, presented by Lithuanian Jew, professor and educator Misha Yakob, Soviets/russians were planning a new wave of exiles aimed directly at remaining Lithuanian Jews in 1953.

Lithuania had a huge pre-WW2 Jewish community due to lack of persecutions that they faced elsewhere, such as russian Pogroms. Nazis murdered most of them, then half or more of the survivors, such as Abba Kovner, moved to Israel post-war. But few that remained did not find peace as long as Stalin was alive, facing deadly deportations to Siberian camps.

Another wave of deportations, planned in 1953, was supposed to trim those numbers to a near zero, cattle wagons stood in Naujoji Vilnia train station waiting to be filled with people.

And then Stalin died. So nothing came of it.

So, next time you claim that Soviets are "better", "not anti-semitic", next time you call Stalin "daddy" please know that you're no better than nazis and kindly go f yourself.

#litvaks #abba kovner #anti semitism #jews #jewish history #holocaust #russia #ussr #stalin #genocide #lithuania #soviet deportations

[rotzaprachim]

A popular post providing screenshot evidence of Hamas not being so bad has a reblog addition providing corroborating evidence from a website linking to the daily stormer. The daily stormer is a far-right Neo-Nazi publication advocating for white nationalism and in favor of violent antisemitism, Islamophobia, misogyny and racism. They are not part of a decolonial movement. They do not have your interests at heart. (Since I began drafting, this article has been taken down). Here’s the thing. Despite the various strange choices of wording that have proliferated over the last couple days, antisemitism is, at heart, a form of white supremacy, integral to the function of white supremacy as a whole. Antisemitism is a self-legitimizing conspiracy that centers Jewish people at the center of all the worlds’ wrongs, whatever they may be, and obscures critical understandings and interrogations of the structural problems of inequality and oppression on a global scale. This is why understanding and obliterating antisemitism is integral to the goals of leftism. You should care about fighting antisemitism because you care about Jews. That should fucking happen. You should care about Jews. But I fundamentally think that a lot of goyim, particularly goyim of color, do not understand their own skin in the game in the fight against antisemitism. It is an ideology profoundly linked and in many cases inseparable from racism, and we cannot stand in this struggle alone.

#Antisemitism #Tw white nationalism #Seeing articles that link to the daily stormer linked on tumblr.net #Here’s when people learn that “Zionist” has been used as an acceptable code word for “Jew” or “Jew I don’t like” by both settler empires to #Justify oppressing minorities they don’t like (the ussr) and by outright white nationalists

[mioritic]

“Mountain Jewish girls and women dancing, photographed in Crimea between the two world wars“

People of a Thousand Towns (via shvlman)

#mountain jews #jewish #jumblr #crimea #jewish history #ussr #yidishkeyt

[twyrrinren]

Sometimes I think that the Soviet project was a collective delirious dream/nightmare, because what do you mean they established the Jewish Autonomous Oblast with Yiddish and Russian as the official languages. (And right now the population of the Oblast consists of 90% Russians and 1% Jews.)

#history #ussr #“why there is only 1% of jews” they migrated to israel #the pale of settlement the only place where jews could live in the rus empire is across the country

[gliklofhameln]

A Rabbi, Krasnaya Sloboda, 1978-1980, by Nodar Djindjihashvili (American, b. Russia, 1939-2002)

These photographs are only a tiny part of those we succeeded in taking during a two-year secret journey through all of Russia, in search of the vestiges of a once thriving Jewish life and culture within what is now the USSR. I planned the journey many years ago, but only in 1978 (prior to my departure from the Soviet Union) was I able to make the trip, accompanied by my friend, Albert Ben-Zion. It was the first of its kind and, I believe, the last; it was for me, the most depressing yet, in some ways, the most exciting experience of my life.

My grandfather, a distinguished scholar and rabbi, gave me much of my early education. My father a prominent attorney during the time when faith in Marxism still inspired much of the Soviet intelligentsia, believed that progress toward the new Socialist justice and decency went hand in hand with the relinquishing of one's religious tradition. I always vacillated between these two poles, alternatively intrigued and repelled by my Jewishness. My journey was partly an attempt to resolve this conflict, as well as a search for answers to the questions that had haunted me for years.

Most important to me were the answers I found during the journey. It seems to me now that being Jewish and embracing it pushes one beyond the boundary of a nationality or a minority condition. It forces one to get deeply involved in a perpetual situation, to which there is only one answer - that is, to stay within the Jewish faith. Once this is recognized by a Jew, his or her individual situation becomes a justification for existence.

It is the life of the vast majority of Soviet Jews that I wished to preserve in my photographs. These Jews are struggling to maintain their religious and cultural heritage in the Soviet Union, despite the difficulties and the threat of extinction. I realized my mission was to record the remnants Russian Jewish culture before it vanished. The more I traveled, the more I realized that I also wanted to photograph the people who are trying to retain Jewish culture.

- Nodar Djindjihashvili  

#jumblr #judaism #jewish photography #nodar djindjihashvili #ussr #russia #antisemitism #mountain jews #azerbaijan #myposts

[adlibitur]

I probably havent complained as much here, but one of the massive reasons I left instagram is seeing triple digit thousands followers internet leftists sharing/pinning literal things from the protocols of the elders of zion as "someone needs to be talking about this truth!" in combo with the fun thing leftists always do before they persecute Jews such as comments about "attacking the zionists where they live" (when talking about random jewish civilians not even in israel) and "zionists control the media" and how what happened in russia was "good pushback against genocidal settlers" like greeeeat (sarcasm) to see the horseshoe theory works perfectly for antisemitism.

#leftists idolize a group that didnt work with people who mass murdered jews challenge impossible #because i literally do need someone to name a group that wasnt directly tied to mass killing of jews because i actually cant anymore #the ira worked with the nazis #the ussr well we know what they did #marx literally enforced the narrative that jews are money hungry and 'huckstering' is their religion #lets not spare proudhon of jews are 'always fraudulent and parasitic' or bakunin 'a bloodsucking people' #proudhons diary sounds like nazi writings #bpp had some also super questionable views on the subject as well #like mayhaps in light of a track record of aligning with antisemitism the left can understand jewish people not trusting #because that makes total sense to me given the left has chomped at the bit to use jews as a scapegoat for other issues #like im sorry but actually confront your fucking ideology

[nesyanast]

Jewish Soviet Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War 2.

With five solo victories, she claimed up to twelve solo victories and two to four shared kills in 66 combat sorties. In about two years of operations, she was the first female fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft, the first of two female fighter pilots to have earned the title of fighter ace and the holder of the record for the greatest number of kills by a female fighter pilot. She was shot down near Orel during the Battle of Kursk as she attacked a formation of German aeroplanes.

When she shot down a Bf 109 G-2 "Gustav" on the tail of her squadron commander, Raisa Beliaeva, the Bf 109 was piloted by a decorated pilot from the 4th Air Fleet, commanded by General Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (a distant relative of the Red Baron), the 11-victory ace, staff Sergeant Erwin Maier of the 2nd Staffel of Jagdgeschwader 53. Maier parachuted from his aircraft, was captured by Soviet troops, and asked to see the Russian ace who had outflown him. When he was taken to Litvyak, he thought he was being made the butt of a Soviet joke. It was not until Litvyak described each move of the fight to him in perfect detail that he knew he had been shot down by a woman pilot.

#jumblr #jewish #jews #nesyapost #jewish history #soviet jews #jewish women #ww2 #ussr #fighter pilots

[basingstokemercury]

So uh

Does communism not have any symbols aside from the hammer and sickle?

#I've mentioned this before #but to me and many jews (and non-jews) who have history in eastern Europe #it's not fun or quirky or memey to use the hammer and sickle #it's a symbol linked to one of the worst totalitarian states in history #my grandfather was born in Siberia. my grandfather. a baby. who only lived because his mother worked in the kitchens #ny great-uncle smuggled Jewish holy materials into Russia because yes it was that bad. #this thing didn't come down until the chocolating nineties. #please please please the ussr and its paraphernalia are not your cutesy communist symbols #they are the symbols of a state that traumatised people #that killed people #I'm not going to do holocaust comparisons because just no #but as a jew whose family was in ukraine during wwii #it really was being caught between a rock and a hard place. #rambling a bit but this is something i see a lot and it hurts ne every time

[transhawks]

me: not all jews are meant to be doctors, lawyers, or engineers mom!! i don't care that everyone in your family has been a metallurgist since 1925. I'm not a science or math person!

also me: *gets an associate's in wine chemistry, reads shit about metal alloys for fun, makes excel spreadsheets for statistics for fun...*

#thankfully her distant sephardi ancestors have a few hundred years of being wine merchants and makers so i got that on my side lmao #personal #okay the whole engineer thing is also because jews were not allowed to have certain careers in the USSR so like #its not like they had a choice my grandpa wasn't allowed to go to diplomat school because of it #but the fact he and everyone else just went ok time to do metallurgy is funny af

[chekistka]

Happy victory day from my character Efraim Khavkin

#art #ussr #belarus #soviet #soviet union #belarusian jew #jewish #victory day #chekas oc

[proustianlesbian]

i am honestly so in chock at how my post about boris volynov's birthday had and is still getting so many notes 😭 !! why me ? why just today, a few days after it was posted ? but it's what he deserve 🥺🥰🥹 !! a lot of thank yous to everyone who shared it, i spent a while searching for good pictures and i hope he knows he is loved (at least by me haha) and known even outside of ex-ussr countries !!

#boris volynov #sophia talks #personal #cosmonaut #jews in space #ussr #ostalgie #urss #soviet union #space exploration #space explorers #yuri gagarin #there are currently as i write this 137 and 136 were today like i had only one since it was posted before. #that might mean that i made 101 persons know about boris volynov. 💙💙💙💙