Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the centuries, the rulers of Russia, czar and commissar alike, have made sporadic attempts to stamp out the small but stubbornly burning flame of Russian Jewish culture. No man came closer to succeeding than Joseph Stalin. In 1948, the birth of Israel stirred up Stalin's lifelong suspicion of Soviet Jewry, and he launched a massive purge that erased nearly every trace of Jewish culture. Three Yiddish journals were banned; a Yiddish publishing house was closed; four Yiddish theaters went by the boards; 450 Yiddish writers, painters, actors and musicians were slaughtered. Only a pallid, two-page newspaper...
Russian Jews view Editor Aron Ver-gelis, a short, stocky man with a shadowy background, with deep distrust. They suspect him of having worked for Stalin's secret police during World War II, and of holding the job of political commissar. One of the few Yiddish writers to escape interrogation, torture, and death during the Stalin purges, Vergelis got right to work at the politics of survival during the thaw that followed Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin. After the Suez invasion, Vergelis dashed off a Yiddish poem furiously attacking Israel. "We will force our enemies to surrender...
...helped get the project started: Jewish Novelist Ilya (Out of Chaos] Ehrenburg, another man with a decided talent for landing on his feet. Although Stalin liquidated nearly every member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Ehrenburg was spared; it was even rumored that he personally fingered fellow members as Zionists...
...Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan...
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