Jews in The Moldavian SSR
After World War II, the number of Jews in Moldavian SSR increased significantly, peaking at 98,001 in 1970. During the 1970s and especially late 1980s, many of them emigrated to Israel. The last Soviet census of 1989 registered 65,672 Jews in the Soviet Republic.
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