Commissariat for Jewish National Affairs

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Described At	Commissariat For Jewish National Affairs	yivo
Has Abstract	Established in January 1918, the Commissariat for Jewish National Affairs (Evreiskii Komissariat; EVKOM) was affiliated with the People’s Commissariat for Nationality Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat po delam Natsionalnostei; Narkomnats). EVKOM’s purpose was to win Jewish support for the Bolshevik regime both within Soviet Russia and abroad by disseminating Communist and Soviet materials in Yiddish. In contrast to the other ethnic commissariats established slightly earlier, EVKOM was considered temporary. Semen Dimanshtein was appointed commissar. During the first months of EVKOM’s existence, its central body included delegates representing Left Social Revolutionaries or SRs (Il’ia Dobkovskii) as well as Po‘ale Tsiyon (Tsevi Fridlender; 1897–1936). EVKOM’s Yiddish newspaper Di varhayt appeared from 8 March to 1 September 1918.	yivo
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Title	Commissariat for Jewish National Affairs	yivo
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Core Alt Label	Commissariat for Jewish National Affairs	yivo
Core Pref Label	Commissariat for Jewish National Affairs	yivo
Core Related	Antisemitic Parties And … yivo Dimanshtein Semen Markov… yivo Evsektsiia yivo Poale Tsiyon yivo Russia yivo Vitsyebsk yivo	yivo
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Commissariat for Jewish National Affairs yivo