The research project on Galician & Bukovinian Jewry The University of Haifa In collaboration with the Jewish Galicia & Bukovina Organization

Summary: The early Soviet period saw an incredible degree of Jewish social and economic integration, but at the price of “Judaism.” Jewish individuals achieved unprecedented economic and even political successes, but Jewish culture – secular and religious – would have to be sacrificed; this new society had room for the Jews only as individuals, not as a religious or national group (despite their continued marking as national minority on their passports). It required the ultimately regeneration – the suppression of all things Jewish.

Recommended Reading:

Zvi Gitelman, A Century of Ambivalence, 49-87