History of Jews in Russia

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/History_of_Jews_in_Russia

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Statements (68)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_event
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	History of Jews in Russia
gptkbp:language	gptkb:Hebrew gptkb:Russian gptkb:Yiddish
gptkbp:notableCommunity	gptkb:Ashkenazi_Jews gptkb:Bukharan_Jews gptkb:Crimean_Karaites gptkb:Mountain_Jews gptkb:Sephardic_Jews gptkb:Jews_of_Birobidzhan gptkb:Jews_of_Kiev gptkb:Jews_of_Moscow gptkb:Jews_of_Odessa gptkb:Jews_of_St._Petersburg gptkb:Chabad-Lubavitch
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Holocaust_in_occupied_Soviet_territories participation in Russian Revolution Pale of Settlement established in 1791 Soviet restrictions on Jewish religion and culture emigration waves to United States and Israel mass emigration in 1970s and 1990s pogroms in late 19th and early 20th centuries revival of Jewish life after 1991
gptkbp:notableInstitution	gptkb:YIVO_Institute_for_Jewish_Research gptkb:Jewish_Museum_and_Tolerance_Center gptkb:Moscow_Choral_Synagogue gptkb:Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast gptkb:Hesed_social_welfare_centers
gptkbp:notablePerson	gptkb:Elie_Wiesel gptkb:Golda_Meir gptkb:Henri_Matisse gptkb:Joseph_Brodsky gptkb:Leon_Trotsky gptkb:Isaac_Babel gptkb:Sholem_Aleichem gptkb:Vladimir_Jabotinsky
gptkbp:population	about 150,000 in 2020s
gptkbp:populationPeak	over 5 million in early 20th century
gptkbp:relatedEvent	gptkb:World_War_II gptkb:Operation_Exodus gptkb:Bolshevik_Revolution gptkb:Dreyfus_Affair_(influence_on_Russian_Jews) gptkb:refusenik_movement collapse of the Soviet Union rise of Zionism Jewish cultural revival post-1991
gptkbp:relatedLegislation	gptkb:Pale_of_Settlement_laws gptkb:Soviet_anti-religious_laws gptkb:May_Laws emigration restrictions
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Holocaust gptkb:Russian_Empire gptkb:Russian_Revolution gptkb:Soviet_Union gptkb:antisemitism gptkb:Pale_of_Settlement gptkb:Russian_Jewish_diaspora gptkb:Soviet_Jewry pogroms Jewish emigration refuseniks
gptkbp:religion	gptkb:Judaism Christianity (converts)
gptkbp:topic	gptkb:Jews gptkb:Russia
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Aliyah_of_Soviet_Jews
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6