Len Khodorkovsky: Anti-Semitism in US – my family fled USSR because of it. We never expected it in America
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For most of our four decades in the United States, anti-Semitism seemed to be a distant problem.
My own family has been victimized by virulent anti-Semitism. My great grandmother died of cold and starvation on the streets a Nazi ghetto. My grandparents, with whom I shared a room for the first eleven years of my life, barely survived the Holocaust. My parents endured the bleak, daily anti-Semitism of the Soviet era, which attempted to snuff out our Jewish heritage. It was not uncommon for me to be called a zhid ("kike") in the school yard. That’s why we desperately wanted to get out of the USSR and go to the U.S., the goldene medina ("golden land" in Yiddish). Eventually we did.More Related News