When Soviet anti-Semitism intensified in the 1979s, a large number of Soviet Jews arrived in Armenia. Why to Armenia? Because, Armenia Jewish community leaders said they were well received and anti-Semitism was not a problem. During Perestroika, the majority of Jews who had moved to Armenia left for Israel. The next mass emigration of Jews and the Armenian members of their families was in 1992-1993, when Armenia was blockaded during the Karapagh War. The chief rabbi of Armenia, Gershon Meir Burstein, was quoted saying that Jews who had left during those years would never have done so under normal conditions—they were successful people—doctors, engineers, businessmen, experts in the IT field. Today there are fewer than a thousand Jews in Armenia.

When Soviet anti-Semitism intensified in the 1979s, a large number of Soviet Jews arrived in Armenia. Why to Armenia? Because, Armenia Jewish community leaders said they were well received and anti-Semitism was not a problem. During Perestroika, the majority of Jews who had moved to Armenia left for Israel. The next mass emigration of Jews and the Armenian members of their families was in 1992-1993, when Armenia was blockaded during the Karapagh War. The chief rabbi of Armenia, Gershon Meir Burstein, was quoted saying that Jews who had left during those years would never have done so under normal conditions—they were successful people—doctors, engineers, businessmen, experts in the IT field. Today there are fewer than a thousand Jews in Armenia.