HAIFA, Israel — Russia is often in the news, since it is not only at home, but also in many places around the globe. However, antisemitism in the Russian Federation has long been unheard of. To understand where it has disappeared to and what the prospects of its appearance are, we need to remember what happened to state antisemitism in the USSR. In the Soviet literature, positive portrayals of characters with Jewish surnames were rare. Most often, Jews were simply not mentioned. The presence of Jews as a people was silenced, almost “classified,” “tabooed.” They were hidden and excluded from...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
