The Jewish Steppe (2001)

Directed by

Valeri Ovchinnikov

Genre

documentary film

How it feels

A group of Russian Jews leave their homes due to prejudice and fear of pogroms. They start a farming commune in Crimea in the 1920s, but the community is destroyed in the late 1930s.

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What happens

The Jewish Steppe is a 2001 documentary about a group of Russian Jews who, suffering as a result of prejudice and fearful of pogroms, left their homeland to farm the Crimea. Established in the 1920s, their Soviet agrarian commune was destroyed in late 30s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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