Why did Jews want to be Communists?

Answer 1

Most of them didn't; the Jews suffered greatly under so-called communist regimes. Linking Jews and Communism was one of Hitler's accusations; why anyone believed it is a mystery. It's particularly odd, since one of the other accusations he made against Jews was, effectively, that they were very very good capitalists. ___ One needs to look at the timespan. In much of Europe and America it was widely believed in the interwar period that many Jews were Communists. This view was very widespread in France, Britain and the U.S. as well as Germany, Poland, Hungary and Romania. It was, unfortunately, part of the stereotype, part of the cliché ... In the 1920s there was a great song and dance about the fact that some leading figures in the Russian Revolution were of Jewish origin, the best known of them being Trotsky. There was also a huge fuss about the fact that Karl Marx had been of Jewish origin. Worse still, some emigrés from Tsarist Russia brought their vile little forged book, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, with them to central and Western Europe. Incidentally, Jews had been viciously persecuted in Tsarist Russia from 1881-1914, so if some of Jews under Tsarist rule turned to Communism - then an untried utopian theory - would can be surprised? There's no 'mystery' about any of this. As far as can be established, anti-Communism was the driving force behind antisemitism in Poland in 1945-47. A significant number of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust was murdered in Poland. (Some historians give a figure of about 300-350). Later, from about 1948, most Communist régimes in eastern Europe became antisemitic - till the death of Stalin in 1953, and again in the aftermath of the Arab-Israeli War of 1967. Please see the link.