A master's thesis at the University of Basra examines (the Soviet government's policy towards Ukrainian Jews and its impact on their immigration to Israel 1944-1975).
A master's thesis in the Department of History / College of Education for Human Sciences - University of Basra examined (the policy of the Soviet government towards Ukrainian Jews and its impact on their immigration to Israel 1944-1975) by the student (Amal Majid Khalaf).
The thesis dealt with the study of the history of the Jews in Ukraine, which dates back more than a thousand years. Jewish communities appeared in the Ukrainian lands since the late ninth century AD, so they constituted the largest minority compared to the rest of the minorities and ethnicities that appeared on the territory of the Soviet Union. As a result of the persecution they were subjected to in those regions, they generated a great desire to emigrate, and establish a state of their own, as they had political weight in Central Eastern Europe, and they played an important role in making international political events, so that they played a vital role in making the entity. The Zionists, and they held high positions in the state, and a number of men who later led the “State of Israel” appeared from them.
This study also focused on understanding the extent of the influence of Western countries, especially the United States of America, in standing by the Zionist movement to pressure the Soviet government to open its doors to immigration to "Israel". Which led to the revival of the nationalist sentiments of the Ukrainian Jews, and the emergence of Zionist organizations from an early period on their lands and encouraging them to emigrate by taking anti-Soviet means. After the Soviet government sensed their danger, it began looking for opportunities to limit them and limit their influence. As a result of the major international changes in international relations between the US-Soviet poles, and the outcome of the competition between them, the emergence of what was known as the (Cold War).
The thesis includes an introduction, followed by a preface, three chapters, and a preface, a brief history of the origins of Ukrainian Jews and Soviet policy towards them (1917-1944). The first chapter came under the title of the Soviet government's policy towards Ukrainian Jews and its impact on the growth of their national feelings and their immigration to "Israel", July 1944 - March 1953. It is followed by the second chapter entitled, The policy of the new Soviet government towards Israeli propaganda - Zionism and their contacts with Ukrainian Jews and their synagogues from (March 1953 - October 1964). Then the third chapter, the international Israeli and Zionist pressures and their impact on the Soviet policy towards the migration of Ukrainian Jews to "Israel" October 1964-August 1975, and the last conclusion and the most important results, appendices, list of sources.
The letter concluded that the Soviet government realized from an early period of its rule that communist ideology could not prevent the growth of national consciousness among Ukrainian Jews, especially since the Jewish religion is based on a purely nationalist idea (that the Jews are God’s chosen people), which contradicts the communist ideology Which rejects the idea of nationalism, and adopts an ideology of containment, and cancels the idea of the nation-state and does not recognize borders. It turned out that the Soviet government’s decision to recognize Israel “in 1948 did not end the Jewish problem in Ukraine, but rather exacerbated it, as the creation of a new entity for the Jews stirred their national feelings, and they began to demand their government to grant them the right to immigrate to Israel, so the Israeli and Zionist organizations in Ukraine found an environment It was fertile to win the feelings of the Jews in it, taking advantage of their living conditions and their grumbling. On their part, the Ukrainian Jews began to make contacts with Western governments, including the United States of America, to put pressure on the Soviet government to grant them the right to immigrate to "Israel".
