ZVI GITELMAN Interview #28 Jews in Soviet Communism, Russian oligarchs, Chabad in Russia, etc.

Описание: ZVI GITELMAN (Interview #28) Jews in the Soviet Bolshevik/Communist Party, Russian oligarchs, Chabad in Russia, etc.

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This interview, like the others, took place in 2010. Zvi Gitelman is today a Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Among his subject specialties have been Jewish life in Eastern Europe, including the Soviet Union/Russia, which is focused upon here. He has been a “Senior Scholar-in-Residence” at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and has served on its official council. He has authored a number of books and been awarded various awards for his scholarship.

In this interview, Professor Gitelman addresses questions like:

Why, for some “people as different as Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler,” was Soviet Bolshevism/communism seen as a Jewish movement?

Why were Jews disproportionately represented in the leadership of the Bolshevik/communist movement (and how strongly tied were they to a “Jewish” identity)?

Why were Jews disproportionately represented (especially in its earlier years) in the Bolshevik/communist secret police?

How has the Chabad Lubavitcher version of Judaism become so influential in today’s Russia?

Why has (what is known in the West as) the “Holocaust” not been seen in Russia as an especially Jewish phenomenon?

How does secular Soviet/Russian law and Jewish religious law differ in defining an individual as a Jew, and in what ways do Jews in that country identify themselves as Jews – or not?