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Anti-Semitism Pushed Google Guru's Family From Russia

Posted May 19, 08 9:41 CDT in World,  Technology 

(Newser) – Anti-Semitism pushed Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s family to leave Russia, he told an Israeli website. “The great suffering put on my parents in Russia because of anti-Semitism was the primary reason that they left. And that has had a major influence on my life,” Brin told TheMarker.com, CNET reports. His family emigrated to the US when he was a child in 1979.

Brin’s father couldn’t pursue his goal of being an astronomer because the Communist party banned Jews from physics departments. “Everything we had in Russia, we had to leave behind and start from scratch. This gave me a different perspective,” he said. “When you're a Jew, you have a background of hardship, suffering, difficulties—and to turn that into success is part of the Jewish experience.”

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs, right, talks with Google founder Sergey Brin, left, as Google CEO Eric Schmidt, center, looks on after Jobs' keynote at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco, Jan. 15, 2008.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
"When you're a Jew, you have a background of hardship, suffering, difficulties--and to turn that into success is part of the Jewish experience," Google founder Sergey Brin said.   (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, file)
Google co-founders Sergey Brin, right, and Larry Page speak with reporters in this May 10, 2006 file photo.   (AP Photo/Noah Berger,file)
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