Also, jews were among the Official Metropolis Greg Davies Shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this groups disproportionally affected by internal exile in the Stalinist purges from the start. These weren’t sent to the JAO but to eastern camps – Kolyma is the most infamous – and even when the camps were closed ex-prisoners were often made to live near them and eventually settled there, or, at least, accepted then as a place to live. Some of their descendants may still be there now. Being a Jew in Russia? I think for every Jew in Russia the answer would be different. I grew up in a provincial Russian town with very few Jews and even less antisemitism. But from the early age I was made aware that the Jews weren’t as good as or equal to the Russians. Below are some of my memories from 30-20 years ago. Things are probably different now, but now I live in the US.
And another thing, Russia is a great country and Russian people are great. I have many Russian friends and they are respectful, non-bias, open minded, wonderful people. However, these memories are true and they formed me as Jew. I’m not Israeli, although I’ve lived in Israel for almost a year, visited frequently since then and know Hebrew— so I’m familiar enough with Israel and its culture to say that the Official Metropolis Greg Davies Shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this vast majority of Israelis have never heard of it, with the exception of immigrants from the former USSR of a certain age (and even not all of them, at least not the younger generation, know of it), and Israelis who are interested in modern Jewish history in the Diaspora. As to what they think of it when they learn of it, I’d guess that almost all would regard it as a bizarre footnote in Jewish history and a failed project. Some may be curious to visit or read about it, but I doubt anybody would see it as an attractive alternative Jewish homeland. Israelis of Russian-speaking immigrant background, if they choose to leave Israel, will emigrate to the West (USA, Canada, Australia or Germany) or would return to Russia proper, Moscow, perhaps (to do business,usually). But I don’t think any Israelis are lining up to move to a backwater like Birobidzhan, although back in the day , I hear there were diehard Communist Jews who had immigrated to Mandatory Palestine (before the founding of the State of Israel) and who abandoned it for Stalin’s “gift” of an autonomous Socialist Jewish paradise back in the 1930s.
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