Soviet Union: Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union and Jewish Emigration

A file of documents concerning anti-Semitism and Jewish emigration in the Soviet Union. Subjects discussed in the file include the level of Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union; an interview given by the Soviet poet Yevgenii Yevtushenko to the Soviet newspaper The Jewish Chronicle; an increase in the number of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist publications in the Soviet press; and the possible purpose of this anti-Semitic campaign. Other subjects discussed in the file include British policy towards the Palestinian Liberation Organisation; the treatment of Jews in Iran, Syria, and the Soviet Union, and the British response to this; and Israeli-Spanish relations. Documents in the file include a record of a meeting between the British Foreign Secretary, Peter Carington, and a delegation from the Board of Deputies of British Jews.