Bitter Years: Soviet Antisemitism in the Wake of the Holocaust

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This panel looks at state-sponsored and popular antisemitism in the Soviet Union in the wake of the holocaust. It examines the range of Jewish reactions to trauma and loss, including efforts to care for orphaned children, preserve the remnants of Yiddish culture, and resist the burgeoning antisemitism in state policies and popular attitudes. It explores how Soviet Jews sought to reinvent Jewish identity in light of new state policies toward Jewish “nationality.”

Sub Unit

• History: 1945-1990

Chair

• Katerina Capkova, Institute of Contemporary History CAS (Czech Republic)

Papers

• Soviet Jewish Responses to State-Sponsored and Popular Anti-Semitism in the Wake of the Holocaust - Wendy Z. Goldman, Carnegie Mellon U

• Soviet Jewish Children Holocaust Survivors in Post-War Soviet Lithuania - Anna Shternshis, U of Toronto (Canada)

• In the Land of Starry Skies and Vanished Dreams: Yiddish Jewish Writers in Stalinist Moldavia - Diana V. Dumitru, Georgetown U

Discussant

• David Brandenberger, U of Richmond