Author Archives: issilvers

            Silent Steppe is, I think, a valuable source for our purposes because Shayakhmetov is so interested in delineating the effects of collectivization and cultural destruction down to the level of interactions between individual family … Continue reading →

I saw three main reasons, according to Weinberg, that Soviet leaders planned the settlement of the Jewish Autonomous Region. First, they hoped it would produce a non-religious Jewish cultural identity rooted in the Yiddish language and in socialism; second, they … Continue reading →