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	Solomon Mikhoels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		) 1890 - January 12/13, 1948) was a Soviet Jewish actor and director in Yiddish theater and the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.
		Mikhoels actively supported Stalin against Hitler, and in 1942, he was made chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.
		Mikhoels was the most visible of the intellectual Jewish leadership, and a show trial would have cast aspersions on Stalin's rule, so Stalin had him assassinated in Minsk in January of 1948.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solomon_Mikhoels (461 words)

	Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC, Russian language: Еврейский анти-фашистский комитет, ЕАК) was formed in Kuibyshev in April 1942 with the official support of the Soviet authorities.
		The members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee were arrested.
		Solomon Mikhoels, the popular actor and director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater, was appointed the JAC chairman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_Anti-Fascist_Committee (873 words)

	Jonathan Tobin
		The focus of this particular purge were those involved in the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, a propaganda vehicle founded by the Stalinist regime during World War II to promote the image of Soviet Russia and engender American support for its war effort.
		Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee tells the little-known story behind what is usually referred to as "the night of the murdered poets" in 1952, when 15 prominent Soviet Jews, including a number of prominent Yiddish writers, were executed on false charges of treason and espionage.
		The committee faithfully did its job during the war, the highlight of which was a successful tour of the United States by committee members that did much to both rouse American sympathy for Russia as well as whitewash the plight of Jews in Stalinist Russia.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/tobin071502.asp (1402 words)

	The Agenda
		The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, of which the executed were members, was created in 1942 as a propaganda tool for the Soviet Union's role in World War II.
		Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International and Co-Editor of Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, provided the historical context about the night on which 13 prominent Yiddish poets and writers were secretly executed on Stalin's orders.
		Throughout the course of the war, the Committee's efforts on behalf of Jews in Soviet territory contributed to a growing sense of Jewish identity, as the Committee contributed funds and other aid to local victims of the Holocaust.
	www.jafi.org.il /agenda/2001/english/wk3-31/8.asp (390 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters
		The turning point for the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee came with the founding of the State of Israel in the spring of 1948.
		For decades the fact that the victims were associated with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was unknown or ignored.
		The committee's best-known undertaking was a seven-month tour by Mikhoels and Fefer of the United States in 1943, with stopovers in Mexico, Canada and England.
	www.forward.com /issues/2002/02.08.09/arts1.html (2147 words)

	Chicago Jewish News -- Jewish Chicago's Hometown Newspaper - Archives
		The writers were framed for participation in the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, which Stalin himself had organized during World War II to rally Soviet Jews and solicit support from America.
		Soviet Jews understood Mikhoels had been killed because, as chairman of the Committee and director of the Yiddish theater, he was the symbol of Jewish consciousness for Soviet Jews in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust.
		In the winter of 1948-49, the writers, as well as Jewish officials associated with the Committee, were arrested for "spying" for the United States in wartime activities which Stalin himself had micromanaged.
	www.chicagojewishnews.com /archives_articles.jsp?id=31758 (1216 words)

	April: Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee Established in USSR
		The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was one of a set of anti-Fascist committees that operated under the Ministry of Propaganda.
		The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee first met in Kuybyshev, where some of the institutions of state had moved when the German army advanced toward Moscow.
		The committee presidium was headed by some 20 famous Soviet Jews from all walks of life.
	www1.yadvashem.org /about_holocaust/chronology/1942-1945/1942/chronology_1942_11.html (127 words)

	«IN AUGUST OF 1952» - ALEXANDER NAIMAN
		In response to anti-Semitic statements about Jewish domination in Crimea M.Kalinin wrote that Jews were given just 60 thousand desyatins of land that had not been used before.
		© 2002 Jewish Confederation of Ukraine - www.jewukr.org
		The USSR officials didn't like the fact that the members of JAC tried to help the Jews who, having returned from the front or evacuation, were striving to return their apartments and apply for a job overcoming post-war anti-Semitism.
	www.jewukr.org /observer/jo16_35/p0103_e.html (1090 words)

	Jewish Antifascist Committee
		The Jewish Antifascist Committee (JAC) was formed in Kuibyshev in April 1942.
		Two Polish Jewish socialists, Henryk Erlich and Viktor Alter (both of whom were later secretly executed), may have proposed the idea to Lavrenti Beria, the head of the NKVD.
		A year after its establishment, the JAC was moved to Moscow and became one of the most important centers of Jewish culture and Yiddish literature until the German invasion.
	www.ibiblio.org /expo/soviet.exhibit/jac.html (245 words)

	All30v.htm
		The crusade against "Jewish bourgeois nationalism" was gaining momentum and an unprecedented anti-Jewish purge was being prepared throughout the socialist camp with the main developments unfolding in Moscow.
		Many other people of Jewish nationality - 110 in all -were arrested in connection with the JAG case on charges of 'espionage' and "anti-Soviet Jewish nationalist activity".
		Jewish literature is removed from bookshops and libraries, and the last two Jewish schools are closed.
	harikumar.brinkster.net /AllianceIssues/All30v.htm (5968 words)

	The Strange Life of Ilya Ehrenburg
		The collection includes material about the important wartime Jewish partisan movement Among the documents in the collection is one concerning a pogrom in Malalchovka, a village near Moscow, which took place in 1959.
		Ehrenburg was born in 1891 in Kiev to a non-religious Jewish family.
		The central figure of one novel, The Stormy Life of Lazik Roitschwantz, is a pathetic "luftmensch," a recurring character in Jewish literature who seems to live "from the air" without visible means of support.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v08/v08p507_Weber.html (706 words)

	Enigma Books - Stalin and the Jews
		The Tragedy of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and the Soviet Jews
		A Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor and a relative of Cardinal Lustiger of Paris (a story by itself), the author is thoroughly acquainted with the tormented history of the last century.
		This tragic period of Jewish history covered so faithfully in The Red Book is filled with heartbreaking ironies.
	enigmabooks.com /stalinjews.htm (864 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Letters
		Stalin had allowed the formation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to reinforce the support of Western Jews for the wartime alliance...
		...I think this was a subtle yet profound statement by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee that the heroic acts of the Jews should be known by the non-Jewish Russian audience and not simply by Jews...
		...A leading member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was Ilya Ehrenburg, writer and journal- ist, the foremost house Jew of the Stalinist regime...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V75I1P6-1.htm (8549 words)

	Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
		Solomon Mikhoels, the popular actor and director of the Moscow Jewish State Theater, is appointed chairman, and many well-known Soviet Jews participate in the Committee's activities.
		Its aim is to organize political and material support for the Soviet struggle against Nazi Germany from the Jewish communities in the West.
		Since the dissolution of the Yevsektsii in 1930, the J.A.C. is the first specifically Jewish body in the Soviet Union.
	www.friends-partners.org /partners/beyond-the-pale/english/61.html (342 words)

	Solomon Mikhoels
		And so the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee turned retroactively from a useful tool into a nest of vipers Mikhoels' worst mistake was his incautious enthusiasm for newly established (and then Soviet-supported) Israel.
		But the enterprise ws doomed from the beginning..What kind of genuine Yiddish culture was possible if Jewish history and religion were taboo, relations with Jews in other countries nonexistent, and pro-Jewish sentiments could at any time be denounced as ''anti-socialist,'' ''bourgeois nationalist'' or ''formalist''?
		Stalin immediately recognized the Jewish state, hoping to use it as a weapon against the Arabs, but he clearly did not foresee the fervent response of Soviet Jews.
	www.music-lovers.co.il /russia/miscellaneous_files/ivri_pages/mikhoels.html (1249 words)

	Photo Archives
		This directive led to the formation of the Five Jewish Cooperating Organizations, a new body that consisted of the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the American Jewish Conference, the World Jewish Congress, and the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
		The adviser on Jewish affairs to the commander of the US forces in Europe was a position established in August 1945 in the wake of the publication of the Harrison Report on the situation of Jewish displaced persons in the Allied zones of occupation.
		There he assumed the new post of Adviser on Jewish Affairs to the commander of US forces in Europe, which was created in the wake of the Harrison Report that condemned the army for its treatment of Jewish displaced persons.
	www.ushmm.org /uia-cgi/uia_doc/photos/2123?hr=null (1412 words)

	1999 SFJFF - Khroustaliov, My Car!
		Members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and Jewish poets will be shot.
		Jewish theatres will be shut down, and Jewish newspapers will be banned.
		At home, the General deals with this crisis by hiding his two Jewish nieces in the closet whenever someone comes to visit.
	www.sfjff.org /sfjff19/programs/20P.html (239 words)

	Jewish World Review
		Rubenstein describes how the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was established on Stalin's orders in April 1942 in order to drum up Jewish support for the American-Soviet alliance against Nazi Germany (yet another example of a leader allowing himself to be surrounded by influential Jews).
		When the committee's members became vocal supporters of the State of Israel, Stalin grew disenchanted with their work.
		"And if we see maleness, whiteness, Jewishness, Zionism or intellectual thuggery there, then let us not look the other way."
	www.jewishworldreview.com /0404/silow_carroll_2004_04_09.php3?printer_friendly (828 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Brutal but essential reading
		In 1950,when the American Jewish Yearbook carried the disturbing news that "leaders of the (Anti-Fascist) Committee and most of the well-known Yiddish writers were arrested and deported" (a claim only partly true), there was no effort made to save them by Jewish organizations in the West, Israeli officials, or the Western democracies.
		Beginning in 1948, 15 members of the committee were arrested and charged with capital offenses.
		Robeson never spoke out, even in private, or tried in any way to help his friend, but he was not the only person to remain apparently indifferent to the fate of these people.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23177 (765 words)

	Society Politics Fascism Opposing Views
		The prosecution of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee - Documentation of the stenographic record of the Stalinist secret trial which took place from 8 May to 18 July 1952 in Moscow.
		The Militia Watchdog - Anti Defamation League operated site monitoring the activities of the far right and fascist elements in the US militia movement.
		The Bethune Institute for Anti-Fascist Studies - Profiles group that monitors, documents and investigates the activities of fascist organizations and develops strategies for fighting these ultra-right groups.
	www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Society/Politics/Fascism/Opposing_Views (598 words)

	Judaic Communists: The Documentary Record
		The notion that the Zionist Jewish movement was anti-communist is a fallacy.
		Their savior called the Jewish leadership of his time, "the children of hell" (Matthew 23:15) but those who presume to speak in His name today, call them the saints and sages of the cosmos.
		When Nazi actions are placed within the context of Jewish Communism's abominable crimes against the Christian people of Russia and Eastern Europe, the public will begin to understand that Hitler and the Nazis were a reaction, however unbalanced and excessive, to the Jewish Communist genocide against millions of Christians and peasants in the East.
	www.revisionisthistory.org /communist.html (5048 words)

	Soviet Repression of the Jews: Who’s Next? - FEATURE - MOSNEWS.COM
		The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was closed down, Jewish theaters and publishing agencies were exterminated, Committee members were arrested and shot, and a fierce state-wide anti-Semitic campaign began.
		The committee had been created to further Jewish culture in the USSR, but in the 1950s its members, including renowned artists and writers, were eliminated during Stalin’s anti-Semitic purge.
		Many other famous Jewish cultural icons of the time were also active in the committee, including actors, poets, writers, scientists, and others.
	mosnews.com /feature/2004/09/22/committee.shtml (1018 words)

	Stalin's Secret Pogrom [Free Republic]
		The members of the Jewish Anti Fascist committee were executed not for being Jewish, but for being politically incorrect, which by left-wing communist standards is the ultimate crime, punishable by execution if deemed sufficiently severe.
		The Jewish Anti-Fascist committee, and like-minded committees were set up by the Soviets as propaganda organs after the June, 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany.
		After the War, the Jewish Anti Fascist committee got involved in documenting the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews on occupied Russian territory.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b681c5d2825.htm (1086 words)

	Jew Watch - Jewish Occupied Governments - USSR - Jews and Communism
		The National Workmen's Committee was organized in the early part of 1915, by representatives of the four leading radical organizations, viz.: The Workmen's Circle, the United Hebrew Trades, the Jewish Socialist Federation of America, and the Forward Association.
		It is to the glory of the Jewish Socialist Bund in Russia that the question of nationalism, which in the minds of the Socialists of the older generation was synonymous with oppression and subjection, was forced into the foreground.
		Jewish children are now admitted to all the schools and universities of Russia without condition.
	www.jewwatch.com /jew-occupiedgovernments-USSR.html (15026 words)

	FORWARD : FacesForward
		The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was established on Stalin's orders in April 1942 in order to drum up Jewish support for the American-Soviet alliance against Nazi Germany.
		Months after the creation of Israel, the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was dissolved and its leaders imprisoned.
		It's true that there was a broader attack against Jewish culture in the Soviet Union during the same period, he said, though it was not directly related to the August 12 murders.
	www.forward.com /issues/2002/02.08.09/faces.html (1038 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Henryk Erlich un Viktor Alter, compiled by Victor Shulman
		...Let it here be recorded that of all the Jewish organizations, the socialist ones alone actively boycotted the receptions for Feffer and Michoels: namely, the Jewish Labor Committee, the Workmen's Circle, the Jewish Labor Bund, the Jewish Social-Democratic Federation, the Labor Zionist Organization of America, and the National Jewish Workers' Alliance of America...
		...The memorandum to Stalin on the proposed Jewish committee against fascism is the most significant piece of evidence...
		...the texts of their memorandum and accompanying letter to Stalin about the proposed world Jewish committee against fascism...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V12I6P108-1.htm (1742 words)

	Center for Jewish Studies Calendar - Past Events for This Academic Year
		The Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for European and Russian Studies are pleased to present a talk by Joshua Rubenstein on "Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Trial of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee."
		A Conference sponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies with the support of The "1939" Club Holocaust Memorial Fund; The UC Humanities Research Institute; The Susan and David Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies; The University of California Office of the President; and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
		Rosenzweig's thought is both traditional in its reliance on classical Jewish texts and commentaries, and radical in its application of those concepts to a reinterpretation of human experience and possibility.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /calendar/0102/jewishst.html (6182 words)

	NCSJ - Jewish Anti-Fascist Cmte. Remembered
		During the war the 14 writers were all members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, which helped enlist considerable support for the Soviet Union in the West.
		According to the 1989 Soviet census, 1.5 percent of Moldova's population is Jewish.
		Theodor Madger, chairman of the Association of Jewish Organizations in Moldova, said the event was the first time such a commemoration has taken place in public in Moldova.
	www.ncsj.org /AuxPages/081704RFE_Mold_Poets.shtml (184 words)

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