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The core Russian Jewish population in Canada numbers 30,000 and the enlarged Russian Jewish population numbered 50,000+, mostly in Montreal and Toronto. [197] Notable Russian Jewish residents include judoka Mark Berger, ice hockey player Eliezer Sherbatov, voice actress Tara Strong, [198] and the musical group Tasseomancy.
Regina Spektor (born 1980), singer-songwriter and pianist, Russian Jewish immigrant; Leonard Stone (1927–2011), father was a Russian Jewish immigrant; Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), composer and pianist [15] Michael Strong (1918–1980) (born Cecil Natapoff), parents were Russian Jewish immigrants
Led a rebellion against Russian President Vladimir Putin (Jewish father) Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999. Karl Radek, Soviet politician [4] [8] [17] Yevgeny Roizman, deputy of the Russian State Duma, mayor of Yekaterinburg (Jewish father) Grigory Sokolnikov, Bolshevik ...
In the 60s, there were around 2.3 million Jews in the USSR, as ethnicity was recorded in the census. [1] Jews from the Soviet Union consisted mostly of the Ashkenazi sect, and emigrated in waves starting in the 1960s, with over 200,000 leaving in the 1970s. [2] As of 2005, over 500,000 Jews had left Soviet Republics for the United States. [3]
Georgian Jews are one of the oldest communities in Georgia, tracing their migration into the country during the Babylonian captivity in 6th century BC. [12] In 1801, the Russian Empire annexed Eastern Georgia. In the beginning of the 19th century, Ashkenazi Russian Jews were forced to move to Georgia by the Russian government. The Ashkenazi ...
Later ethnic Russian communities, such as the Doukhobors (who emigrated to the Transcaucasus from 1841 and onwards to Canada from 1899), also emigrated as religious dissidents fleeing centrist authority. One of the religious minorities that had a significant effect on emigration from Russia was the Russian Jewish population.
The Pale of Settlement [a] was a western region of the Russian Empire with varying borders that existed from 1791 to 1917 (de facto until 1915) in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish residency, permanent or temporary, [1] was mostly forbidden.
The 1970s Soviet Union aliyah was the mass immigration of Soviet Jews to Israel after the Soviet Union lifted its ban on Jewish refusenik emigration in 1971. More than 150,000 Soviet Jews immigrated during this period, motivated variously by religious or ideological aspirations, economic opportunities, and a desire to escape anti-Semitic discrimination.