TY - JOUR
T1 - Crimea 2008
T2 - A lesson about uses and misuses of history
AU - Dekel-Chen, Jonathan
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This essay considers a new, troubling development in the former Soviet Union. It calls for historians to be attentive and thereby perhaps to forestall or minimise potential damage to Jews and Jewish interests in the former Soviet Union which might result from the use and misuse of history. The essay assesses recent statements from a former minister in Russia regarding Jewish agricultural settlement in Crimea during the interwar period. These statements echo monstrous antisemitic fabrications from the High Stalinist years and suggest that Jews in the former Soviet Union may still be vulnerable to the effects of old Soviet-style habits of historical manipulation.
AB - This essay considers a new, troubling development in the former Soviet Union. It calls for historians to be attentive and thereby perhaps to forestall or minimise potential damage to Jews and Jewish interests in the former Soviet Union which might result from the use and misuse of history. The essay assesses recent statements from a former minister in Russia regarding Jewish agricultural settlement in Crimea during the interwar period. These statements echo monstrous antisemitic fabrications from the High Stalinist years and suggest that Jews in the former Soviet Union may still be vulnerable to the effects of old Soviet-style habits of historical manipulation.
KW - Agricultural settlement
KW - American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
KW - Crimea
KW - Doctors' Plot
KW - Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
KW - Soviet Union
KW - Stalin
KW - antisemitism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77958088001&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13501670902750311
DO - 10.1080/13501670902750311
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AN - SCOPUS:77958088001
SN - 1350-1674
VL - 39
SP - 101
EP - 105
JO - East European Jewish Affairs
JF - East European Jewish Affairs
IS - 1
ER -
