Tag #151775 - Interview #84041 (Yacob Hollander)

I remember that there were few Jewish communists in Kamyanske. I saw two of them. They were no different from other Jews having beards and wearing black clothes. Once they began to argue about a book by Lenin [6] at the synagogue. They attended at the synagogue and it didn’t contradict their reading of Lenin’s books and grow fond of communist ideas. Adults said that they wanted Subcarpathia to join the USSR. I don’t remember any details. I was just a boy and took no interest in politics. In general, Jews were not interested in politics, except for few of them. Religion was the Jewish policy and this was all they cared about. There were no Zionist organizations or Zionist clubs for children and youngsters in the village. Rabbis governed all Jewish activities and they would have never tolerated such things. Rabbis would have closed any Zionist club, even if it was opened in the village.