JS 355

Fall 2025

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Soviet Jewish History
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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as HIST 355. See HIST 355.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
70634
Lecture-Discussion
A
10:00AM -10:50AM
MWF
1090 Lincoln Hall
Strakhova, A
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/25/25-12/10/25
Section Info:
Title: Soviet Jewish History Topic: When the Soviet Union was established in 1922, its Jewish population numbered 2.5 million, making it the third largest in the world, after the United States and Poland. A relatively benevolent period of indigenization (korenizatsiia), when Yiddish schools and culture received state sponsorship, was followed by the Great Purge and the death of prominent Jewish writers and poets. The Nazi occupation and the destruction of at least two million Jews in the Soviet Union overshadowed the persecutions of the 1930s. State antisemitism following the creation of the State of Israel and the Soviet Jewry movement defined Jewish history in the Soviet Union after the Holocaust. Exploring these and other topics in the history of Jews in the Soviet Union, this course traces the following questions: How were Jewish identities transformed during the Soviet period? What did it mean to be a Jew in the Soviet Union? How did Soviet Jewry persevere and restore after the collapse of the USSR?
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