Jewish atheism

atheism as practiced by people who are ethnically and culturally Jewish

A Yevsektsiya (, a syllabic abbreviation for "Jewish Section" (). ; ) was the ethnically Jewish section of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its main institutions; it is also sometimes described as the Yiddish-language branch of the CPSU. The section was established in fall of 1918 with consent of Vladimir Lenin to carry Party ideology and Marxist-Leninist atheism to the Soviet Jewish masses. The Yevsektsiya published a Yiddish periodical, der Emes. According to Walter Kolarz, the Yevsektsiya inside the League of Militant Godless, "had a total of 40,000 Jewish members in 1929, the ye