The Occupational Transformation of Soviet Jews in the 1920s and 1930s
The political,economic,social and cultural life of Soviet Jews underwent tremendous changes in the 1920s and 1930s.After the Bolshevik party came to power,Jews were nominally granted equal citizenship,but the government's social policy relegated a huge number of Jews to the so-called lishentsy.These people were not only disenfranchised,but also discriminated in various fields,such as education,medical care and social welfare.In order to pull through the crisis of survival and be reinstated in their civil rights,Jews worked hard to join the working class.They achieved their occupational transformation through plunging into the social production and service sectors,such as industry,agriculture,handicraft industry and public sector.For Soviet Jews,the occupational transformation was both a challenge and an opportunity.They had to give up the work they were good at,such as business,and get involved in the work which were extremely unfamiliar to them.In the 1920s and 1930s,Jews were extraordinarily outstanding in the political field,and they had made an important impact on the development of the Soviet Union.Investigting the occupational transformation of Soviet Jews in the 1920s and 1930s helps to illustrate the nature of Soviet economic and ethnic policies in the same historical period.
The Soviet UnionJewsLishentsyOverseas Jewish Philanthropic OrganizationsOccupational Transformation
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