“Jewish kolkhoz”
I’ve written a bit about the Holodomor — mostly about how it relates to my own family history and how Ukrainian Jews got left out of the Ukrainian famine/genocide story. Why are Jewish victims — as well as other Ukrainian ethnic minorities — not part of the narrative that’s told today? Well, I guess it’s mostly because our inclusion into this tragedy wouldn’t fit the clean line about the famine being a (Judeo) Bolshevik plot designed to wipe out ethnic Ukrainians as a people.
The whole thing is pretty interesting. But when I started trying to find academic literature on the subject, I realized that there’s almost nothing there — nothing other than a a few papers and lectures complaining about how little this part of history has been studied.
If you haven’t already, can read what I wrote about it here and here…and a bit here, where I dig up a WWII-era Nazi propaganda leaflet that I bought in Kiev that blames Ukrainian starvation on collusion between Jews and Stalin.
I’m probably not gonna write about this topic again for a while so I wanted to share a couple of notes and sources I have on this forgotten aspect of the famine in Ukraine — in case you’re interested in reading more about it.