Research Fellow of the St. Petersburg Judaica Center of the UW SPb, Professor at the Faculty of Free Arts and Sciences of SPbSU, and member of the Academic Council of the IEAEI.
Euro-Asian Jewish (EAJ) Policy Papers, No 55 (August 2023)
75 Years of the Destruction of the Jewish Antifascist Committee: Jewish Politics and Jewish Culture in the Late and Post-USSR
TerritoryPost-Soviet States
The liquidation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) by Stalin in November 1948 was the formal beginning of the policy of Soviet state anti-Semitism. From that moment on, legal Jewish politics in the USSR, which had existed in this country in its modern forms for more than half a century, disappeared. The same event severed the strong connection between legal Jewish political life and legal Jewish culture. If the latter began to revive in more or less legal forms in the mid-1950s, then the legal Jewish political subjectivity went underground, reappearing only at the end of the 1989s as part of the Jewish community-cultural revival in the USSR ‘perestroika’. From that time to the present, post-Soviet Jewry has been searching for an optimal model for its political self-organization. One of the most successful models was the political and cultural platform, close to the ideas of autonomism, formulated at the beginning of the 20th century. S. M. Dubnov. Those ideas gradually set the tone in post-Soviet communities in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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