Yes. I'm not even sure if you can label them as jews. But it is true as you said: "A majority of this gang" seem to have some jewish elements.
Also I do not believe jews faced any extraordinary discrimination in Europe and Russia until the mid to late 1930s.
That was some interesting information.
In return: I recently compiled some info on Lenin from various sources, which I have tried my best to verify for authenticity. Interesting stuff.
Lenin's real name: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.
Chose the name Lenin during his exile in Siberia, probably referring to the Lena river.
List of ancestors/relatives:
Lenin's wife Nadezhda Konstantinovna "Nadya" Krupskaya. (from wiki)
Nadya's father, Konstantin Ignat'evich Krupski was educated and given a commission as an infantry officer in the Russian Army. Just before leaving for his assignment in Poland he married Nadya's Jewish mother. After six years of service, Krupski lost favor with his supervisors and was charged with "un-Russian activities." He may have been suspected of being involved with revolutionaries.
Lenin's elder brother Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov, was arrested in March 1887 for participating in a bombing plot against the throne (by attempting to assassinate tzar Alexander III), and hanged in May.
Later Lenin would accomplish the task during the October revolution by ordering the Red army to execute the Romanov's.
F= Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov (was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir and therefore a heriditary nobleman.)
M= Maria Alexandrovna Blank (daugther of Alexander Dmitrievich Blank whose real name is Srul Blanc)
FF=Nikolay Vasilyevich Ulyanov <- Ulyanin (was from Astrakhan; was a tailor earned money and married late in life, a bride 20 years junior; original last name Ulyanin modified to Ulyanov.) (possibly Half Chuvash- Half Russian; Chuvash is a Turko-Mongol group)
FM=Anna Alexeyevna Smirnova (was a baptized Kalmyk= a Turkic-Mogol ethnic group)
FFF=Vasily Nikitich Ulyanin (was a serf; some sources say had Chuvash (Turkic) ethnicity= unverified)
FFM=Anna Semyonovna NN
FMF=Aleksey Lukyanovich Smirnov
FMM=Alexandra Ulyanova NN
MF=Srul Moishevich Blank (was a Ukrainian jew from Zhitomir, Ukraine. Srul is the Yiddish form of the name "Israel". Later he changed his name to Alexander Dmitrievich Blank and is said to have converted to Orthodoxy; note Blanc family)
MM=Anna Ivanovna Grosschopff (was of German (father)- Swedish(mother) descent)
MFF= Moshko Itskovich Blank
MFM=Mariam Froimovich
MMF=Johann Gottlieb Grosschopff
MMM= Anna Beata Östedt
Note: FF= Father's father and so on.
During the beginning of the Bolshevik revolution there was a popular idea among the masses that the Bolshevik revolution was jewish in nature.
This isn't surprising because many prominent Bolsheviks were jews.
Examples: Grigory Zinoviev, Moisei Uritsky, Lev Kamenev, Yakov Sverdlov, Grigory Sokolnikov, Leon Trotsky; and also because even at the infancy of the revolution, there were rumors that Lenin had personally ordered the execution of the entire family of the Tsar (which was seen as a symbol of orthodoxy.)
If the masses knew Lenin, the designer of the revolution was also jewish, it would cause major problems.
The Bolsheviks and Lenin denied Lenin's jewish ancestry and also that he had ordered the execution.
If these facts were let out in the open, it would have caused major problems, as the people, who were mostly Orthodox would see it as a jewish overtake of an orthodox people.
But much later it was revealed that not only was Lenin part Jewish but he also admired the Jews.
1.
Quote by lenin
"An intelligent Russian," he once remarked, "is almost always a Jew or someone with Jewish blood in his veins." Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution (New York: Knopf, 1990), p. 352.
2. Letter from Lenin's sister to Stalin.
In a letter to Stalin in 1932 Lenin's older sister, Anna Ulyanova, wrote that their maternal grandfather "came from a poor Jewish family and was, according to his baptismal certificate, the son of Moses Blank." Ulyanova said her brother "had always thought highly of Jews." (
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In this letter Anna is urging Stalin to let the people know about Lenin's jewsih ancestry. Stalin who was busy purging jews from the Higher ranks of the Politburo and elsewhere replied, "Not one word about it."
I guess there was a general notion in those days and before that jews sticked with each other and worked in gangs.
For example: Here an officer of the London Police says that the witness was jewish and refused to testify against a fellow jew. This pertains to the investigations of the "Jack the Ripper' murders.
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Aaron Kosminski (born Aron Mordke Kozminski; 11 September 1865 – 24 March 1919) was a Polish Jew who was admitted to Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum in 1891.[19] "Kosminski" (without a forename) was named as a suspect by Sir Melville Macnaghten in his 1894 memorandum[20] and by former Chief Inspector Donald Swanson in handwritten comments in the margin of his copy of Assistant Commissioner Sir Robert Anderson's memoirs.[21] Anderson wrote that a Polish Jew had been identified as the Ripper but that no prosecution was possible because the witness was also Jewish and refused to testify against a fellow Jew.