the Zionists thought the revolution would advance their goals and there was a feeling of liberation,” Gorin said. But it’s not like Russian Jews ever really had a choice. “At a time when the ...

Bartal, Israel 2010. The other story: Israeli historians and Jewish ‘universalism’. European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire, Vol. 17, Issue. 3, p ...

This changed after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, in which Russia became ... Semitism and facilitating unprecedented growth among Russian Jewish communities. Help ensure Jewish news remains ...

This is the first study of the military experience of some one to one-and-a-half million Jews who served in the Russian Army between 1827, the onset of personal conscription of Jews in Russia, and ...

The director of Collective Phenomena, Semion Aleksandrovskiy, shared a little of this complex history via his own family ...

Prior to Israel’s founding, the majority of European Jews rejected the idea of an ethnically Jewish nation. Instead they ...

One significant obstacle that the prosecution faced throughout the case was that Beilis was broadly respected, even beloved, by the Gentiles in his neighborhood, some of whom referred to him affection ...

An Israeli passenger told Ynet that rioters stopped a bus carrying passengers and asked every person if they were Muslim or Jewish. "It was lucky that the Israelis on the plane spoke Russian," he ...