TY  - EJOUR
AU  - Tatsiana Astrouskaya
T1  - Post-War Jewish Migration from the USSR and the refuseniki movement
T2  - Copernico. Geschichte und kulturelles Erbe im östlichen Europa
PY  - 2022/03/15
UR  - https://www.copernico.eu/en/link/6141e581977000.68679317
DA  - 2025/11/08
PB  - Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung - Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
LA  - en
AB  - The post-WW II Jewish migration from the Soviet Union (and also after its dissolution) is one of the largest in modern history. Altogether 2.75 million Soviet Jews left the USSR for Israel, the United States, Germany and elsewhere. The position of the Soviet state with respect to emigration was remarkably ambivalent: in some cases, it was allowed and even encouraged, in others, others; it was controlled and strongly limited. The Jewish emigration movement that arose in the late 1960s and continued throughout the 1970s-1980s became an example of resistance and activism within the authoritarian system, which increasingly alerted international attention. In one way or another, it affected the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and changed the appearance of many cities and towns within the Soviet Union and outside it.
KW  - United States of America
KW  - Vienna
KW  - Belarus
KW  - Ukraine
KW  - Georgia
KW  - Leningradskaja
KW  - Saint Petersburg
KW  - Moscow
KW  - Birobidschan
KW  - Israel
KW  - Roma
KW  - Russia
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Vienna
KW  - Czechoslovakia
KW  - Saint Petersburg
KW  - Birobidschan
KW  - Stalin, Iosif V.
KW  - Jews
KW  - Migration (human)
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Refusenik
KW  - Visa
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Human rights movement
KW  - Nationality policy
KW  - The Holocaust (Shoah)
KW  - Emigration
KW  - Politics
KW  - Refugee
KW  - Public
KW  - Culture
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Agency
KW  - resettlement
KW  - Prague Spring
KW  - Zionism
KW  - Foreign policy
KW  - bourgeoisie
KW  - evacuation
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - Cold war
KW  - World War II
KW  - Prague Spring
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Migration history
KW  - German
DO  - https://doi.org/10.25355/296
L1  - https://www.copernico.eu/en/doi/6141e581977000.68679317
ER  -