[Jan_Sobieski]

I am a strong supporter of Israel and the Jewish people. Question: do you think the Bolshevik revolution had an effect on America’s perception of Jewish refugees/immigrants? My understanding of the Ukrainian history is that many Ukrainians did not like the Jews whom they saw as communist sympathizers.

[MarvinStinson]

The last Jew of Vinnitsa, 1941

A picture from an Einsatzgruppen soldier’s personal album, labelled on the back as “Last Jew of Vinnitsa”.
It shows a member of Einsatzgruppe D just about to shoot a Jewish man
kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941.
All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas were massacred at the time.

[Godebert]

"My understanding of the Ukrainian history is that many Ukrainians did not like the Jews whom they saw as communist sympathizers."

Many Americans believe the same thing today.

[SJackson]

Not really, antisemitism existed in the US long before the revolution. Jews, and to a lesser extent Catholics, couldn’t vote or hold public office in some states. Post Constitutions, Catholics could vote in all states, but Jews couldn’t in a couple of states. I think the last state allowing Jews to hold public office was MD in the late 1820s, though some sources claim NC post civil war.

[rmlew]

I am a strong supporter of Israel and the Jewish people. Question: do you think the Bolshevik revolution had an effect on America’s perception of Jewish refugees/immigrants? My understanding of the Ukrainian history is that many Ukrainians did not like the Jews whom they saw as communist sympathizers.

It did, largely because of sloth, stupidity, and lies. A large number of Western observers hung out and drank with Monarchists and didn't want to sully themselves or do any work by talking to Jews. And so they believed the propoganda by the drunkards and dimwits, who were the effective useful idiots for the Bolsheviks. What the anti-Bolsheviks needed was a united front and not to piss off every minority group. Russia nobles, hobbled by inbreeding, vodka, and Slavophillic mental disorders, failed to understand this.