Żydowskie dzieciństwo w ZSRR w utworach wspomnieniowych z najnowszej literatury rosyjskiej

Abstract

The author of the article looks at the manifestations of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. Contrary to communist propaganda, the problem was raft and sometimes was “openly mentioned in the official political agenda.” The analysis focuses on non-fiction (essays, autobiographies) of the writers of Jewish descent, who spent their childhood in the Soviet Union: Jelina Czyżewa, Siergiej Gombrowski, Jewgienij Bunimowicz, and Lew Rubinstein. Yet, the Jewish issues are not the main preoccupation of their works as they consider themselves “primarily as representatives of Russian intelligentsia”.