Yevsektsiya

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A Yevsektsiya^[1] (Russian: евсекция^[2], IPA: [jɪfˈsʲektsɨjə]; Yiddish: יעווסעקציע) were the Jewish section of the Soviet Communist Party and its main institutions. These sections were established in fall of 1918 with consent of Vladimir Lenin to carry Party ideology and Marxist-Leninist atheism to the Soviet Jewish masses.^[3] The Yevsektsiya published a Yiddish periodical, der Emes.^[4] According to Walter Kolarz, the Yevsektsiya inside the League of Militant Godless, "had a total of 40,000 Jewish members in 1929, the year when the anti-religious campaign was at its peak. These 'Jewish sections' were much despised by the bulk of Russia's Jewry. Their members were regarded with as much contempt as the Jewish renegades who turned persecutors of the own brethren in the Middle Ages."^[5]