Nearly 1 million people who emigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union were eligible as Jews under the Law of Return and became Israeli citizens, accounting for 15 percent of Israel’s population. ..…
After the fall of the Soviet Union, an influx of Jews from former Soviet republics arrived in Israel during the 1990s, forming a large cohort that was notably less religiously observant than Israeli Jews overall. Many of these immigrants now have children who were born in..…
rising tensions in the region spurred increased immigration by Sephardi Jews from Middle East and North Africa. ... Soviet Jews brought secular mindset to Israel, and more than two decades later, Jews. ..…
In 1939, there were 16.6 Jews worldwide, and majority of them 9.5 million, or 57% lived Europe, according to DellaPergola's estimates. ... DellaPergola estimates that there were 3.4 Jews in European portions of Soviet Union as of 1939. ..…
This line of propaganda competed with another, however: that Muslims were Nazi Germany’s natural allies against Jews, Britain, and the Soviet Union. ..…
Jews from the former Soviet Union and their offspring account for roughly one-tenth of the U.S. ... Jews have high levels of educational attainment. Most Jews are college graduates (58%), including 28% who say they have earned a post-graduate degree. ..…
They include Sikhs and Jains from India, followers of folk religions from China and Hong Kong, followers of African traditional religions from sub-Saharan Africa and Jews from the former Soviet Union, among others. . ..…
British Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Sir Alexander Cadogan wrote in his diary in January 1944: “They [the Soviet diplomats] are the most stinking creepy set of Jews I’ve ever come across.”4 . The prejudices were mutual but the Soviet side had the advantage..…
The Einsatzgruppen had no order to kill all Soviet Jews when the Wehrmacht invaded the Soviet Union. ... East of the 1939 border between Germany and the Soviet Union, in places like Riga, Jews were generally shot. ..…
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