Academic Advisory Committee
• Prof. Ziva Galili (Rutgers University)
• Prof. Eli Lederhendler (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Prof. Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania)
• Prof. Amir Weiner (Stanford University)
Plans for the future
Today, J-Doc is already the largest collection of archival documents containing facts of targeted pressure on the Jewish population by the state in the post-war period of the Stalinist regime. In the future, we plan to expand the chronological framework from the 1930s to the 1970s.
What archive materials do we use?
Here you can see a list of all the archives we work with. At the moment, the site mainly features materials from Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. We hope that in the near future we will be able to expand the geography of our searches.
About the project
State anti-Semitism in the USSR, which manifested itself in the pre-war years, intensified during World War II and reached its peak during the repressions of the late 1940s and early 1950s. After Stalin's death, it was not condemned by either state or official public structures. Having found fertile ground in the consciousness of the leaders and workers of the party, Soviet and repressive organs
at all levels, anti-Semitism remained the guiding principle of the state's attitude toward Jews for decades. Thus, the documents being opened cover more than half a century of the existence of the Soviet Union until its collapse in the early 1990s.