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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (26756)12/8/1998 11:58:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I am with you Steve, except on one point of fact.

It has to do with the question of -- who or what is a Jew? You may say that it is someone who practices Judaism. If he ceases to practice it, in your view, he is no longer a Jew. But there are some Jews who would disagree with that definition -- including all the secular Jews of Israel, I would presume. Good grief -- I'm no expert on this, but still, weren't quite a few of the Zionist leaders atheists?

But you are on the subject of the Russian Revolution. So it is relevant to inquire how the state defined who is a Jew.

In pre-revolutionary Russia, the term was defined more or less the way you define it. You were a Jew if you practiced Judaism -- and that was in your passport. If you converted to Russian Orthodoxy, you were no longer a Jew (and could live wherever you wanted); and they would stamp "Russian Orthdox" in your passport.

But in Soviet Russia, you were and are a Jew because that is your "nationality". Hence, it was and is quite possible & normal to be an "atheist Jew".
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