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How was the state policy towards the Jews in the Soviet Union formed and how did the international situation affect these processes?
Our guest is Serhiy Girik, historian and professor at the master’s program in Judaic studies at the «Kyiv-Mohyla Academy» National University.
Serhiy Girik: There were regions in the Soviet Union where many Jews lived. There, state policy that regarding them was relevant. On the other hand, there were regions where Jews did not live at all, and their question was a formality. We are talking about regions that were beyond the limit of settlement before the revolution: Siberia and the Urals. There were small communities of Jews in the big cities there but there were no Jews outside those big cities. In the territory that was on the border of settlements in pre-revolutionary times, the density of the Jewish population was high, and it remained this way.
