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	Solomon Mikhoels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mikhoels, who showed outstanding talent, was the company's leading actor and, as of 1928, its director.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solomon_Mikhoels (527 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Solomon Mikhoels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Solomon took formal piano lessons for 6 years which laid the foundation for his being able to compose an average of 6 solo piano pieces a year since 1993.
		Solomon is a Songwriter as well, and writes mostly Country music and Christian music songs, as well as some love songs with his wife Tirah.
		Solomon was born and raised in the General Church of the New Jerusalem ; a branch of the New Church, sometimes known as Swedenborgian.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Solomon-Mikhoels (2068 words)

	Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Solomon Mikhoels, the popular actor and director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater, was appointed the JAC chairman.
		In 1943, Mikhoels and Itzik Feffer, the first official representatives of the Soviet Jewry allowed to visit the West, embarked on a seven-month tour to the USA, Mexico, Canada and Britain to drum up their support.
		On July 16, 1943, Pravda reported: "Mikhoels and Feffer received a message from Chicago that special conference of Joint initiated a campaign to finance a thousand of ambulances for the needs of the Red Army." The visit also evoked the American public to the necessity of entering the European war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_Anti-Fascist_Committee (885 words)

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	Pravda.RU:In memory of Solomon Mikhoels
		Mikhoels was killed, for it was too dangerous to try him, because he was innocent.
		Mikhoels, who was a theatre director and actor, became People's Actor of the USSR in 1939, while in 1946 - he was awarded with the Stalin Prize.
		Mikhoels was one of the theatre founder and became its leader since 1929.
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2003/01/11/41899_.html (726 words)

	Solomon Mikhoels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Solomon Mikhoels (Vovsi) (March 1890 - January 12 / 13 1948) was a Soviet Yiddish actor and director.
		Born in Dvinsk (now Daugavpils) Latvia Mikhoels studied law in Saint Petersburg but left school in 1918 to Alexander Granovsky's Jewish Theater Workshop which was to create a national Jewish theater in based on the Yiddish language.
		Mikhoels who outstanding talent was the company's leading actor as of 1928 its director.
	www.freeglossary.com /Solomon_Mikhoels (557 words)

	Solomon Mikhoels
		Solomon Mikhoels (1890-1948) was a Soviet Yiddish actor and director.
		Born in Latvia, Mikhoels studied law in Saint Petersburg, but left school in 1918 to join Alexander Granovsky's Jewish Theater Workshop, which was attempting to create a national Jewish theater in Russia based on the Yiddish language.
		Before the purges began, however, he died in a car crash in Minsk in 1948.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/so/Solomon_Mikhoels.html (337 words)

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		Mikhoels explain the king's abdication from his throne in an unexpected and somewhat strange manner.
		This profound review demonstrates that Mikhoels' staging of Lear reflect the most dramatic events of the 1930s, when each and every human being found himself extirpated from the husk of his private existence in the face of the transformations affecting his own country and the rampant advance of fascism.
		Paradoxically, Mikhoels had prepared for the role of Lear by playing in the shtetls for so many years, for an audience of Jews who had been forced to live far off from history's main lines.
	www.gutov.ru /texti/mih.htm (1772 words)

	stalin's secret pogrom-INTRO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The JAC, led by Solomon Mikhoels, the renowned Yiddish actor and theater director, had been established in 1942 alongside four other anti-fascist committees (for women, youth, scientists, and Slavs), each designed to appeal to a different segment of Western public opinion in support of the allied alliance against Nazi Germany.
		Fefer, in fact, was dispatched to watch over Mikhoels and make regular reports to a Soviet "handler." On the eve of the trial, Fefer was led to believe that if he continued to cooperate, his life would be spared.
		Except for Lina Shtern, who was sentenced to a term of exile, and Solomon Bregman, who collapsed into a coma during the trial and died in prison in January 1953, the remaining thirteen defendants, including two women, were convicted and sentenced to death; the executions were carried out on August 12.
	www.joshuarubenstein.com /rubenstein/stalinsecret/intro.html (3691 words)

	News - Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The committee was composed of such significant public figures as the popular actor and theatre director Solomon Mikhoels, writer Ilya Ehrenburg, poet Peretz Markish, General Yakov Kreyzer-recognized as a Hero of the Soviet Union, and many others.
		Solomon Mikhoels and the poet Itzik Feffer visited the United States, where American Jews provided considerable resources for use on the front.
		In January 1948, Solomon Mikhoels, the gifted director of the Moscow Yiddish Art Theater, was brutally murdered in Minsk (his death officially attributed to a car accident).
	www.bacjrr.org /news/news8.htm (1016 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Brutal but essential reading
		The dictator's daughter Svetlana later overheard her father on the telephone approving the official story that the actor's death was the result of an automobile accident.
		Stalin had felt Mikhoels was too much of an actor to carry out the role prepared for him by the secret police for him to take part in any show trial.
		Paul Robeson, who had known Mikhoels, and another member of the JAC soon to be arrested, Itsik Fefer, had insisted on a visit to Moscow that he meet with Fefer.
	www.yale.edu /annals/Reviews/review_texts/Grenier_on_Pogrom_WorldNetDaily_06.09.01.htm (758 words)

	Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
		Its aim is to organize political and material support for the Soviet struggle against Nazi Germany from the Jewish communities in the West.
		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.
		In 1943 Solomon Mikhoels and the writer Itzik Feffer embark on a seven-month official tour to the USA, Mexico, Canada and Great Britain.
	www.friends-partners.org /partners/beyond-the-pale/english/61.html (342 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The GOSET directorship passed to Mikhoels — along with the task of guiding the theater through the perilous shoals of the Stalinist cultural revolution.
		Still, he argues, Mikhoels was essentially apolitical — shunning any sort of activism and refusing to join even the actors' union.
		Mikhoels was accorded a state funeral but, for Soviet Jews, his murder signaled a terror that would last through Stalin's death.
	www.forward.com /issues/2001/01.03.23/arts2.html (1065 words)

	Personality of the Week - Mikhoels
		Solomon Mikhoels as Tevye and actress Shmiunuk as his daughter Beilke in the Moscow Yiddish State Theater production of Shalom Aleichem’s Tevye the Milkman, Moscow, 1937
		In 1942 Mikhoels was appointed chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee which appealed for Jewish support from abroad for the Soviet struggle against the Germans.
		Mikhoels was the first to die; he was killed in a car crash in Minsk, later known to have been maneuvered by the Soviet secret police.
	www.bh.org.il /Names/POW/mikhoels.asp (311 words)

	Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Solomon Mikhoels the popular actor and director of Moscow Jewish State Theater was appointed the chairman.
		In 1943 Mikhoels and Itzik Feffer the first official representatives of the Jewry allowed to visit the West embarked on a seven-month tour to USA Mexico Canada and Britain to drum up their support.
		Solomon Mikhoels the JAC chairman the actor-director of Moscow Jewish State Theater
	www.freeglossary.com /Jewish_Anti-Fascist_Committee (855 words)

	"Shostakovich and Stalin" (Chapter 7, by Solomon Volkov, 2004)
		On that day in Minsk, the great Jewish actor Solomon Mikhoels, who had come to the capital of Belorussia on business for the Stalin Prize Committee, of which he headed the theater section, was killed by a heavy truck.
		After all, Mikhoels belonged to the golden circle of Soviet cultural figures: he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR and in 1946 received the Stalin Prize.
		For that, Mikhoels was sent to America in 1943, where he met with Albert Einstein, his old friend Marc Chagall, and Charlie Chaplin, among other luminaries, and spoke at rallies and conferences in support of the Soviet Union's role in the war against the Nazis.
	www.talkaboutpeople.com /group/alt.fan.shostakovich/messages/15418.html (6473 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Solomon Khromchenko (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She and Pavel were proud of the family connection, but Solomon was completely unaware of this branch of his family.
		Music must be a family trait: Anna is a piano teacher and conducts a choir, and her son is a gifted trumpeter who performs in an IDF troupe.
		Solomon was delighted at the serendipity: Here, in distant Jerusalem, a Khromchenko, beautiful and talented, endowed with the joy of music.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Khromchenko_Solomon_439550919.htm (1088 words)

	SOLOMON MIKHOELS. The Return (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Solomon Mikhoels is one of the most outstanding figures of the XX century, a symbolic figure.
		Although the film is dedicated to Solomon Mikhoels, the shadow of the Leader is always in the shot.
		A great constellation of talents, actors and social figures, brought together by one aspiration - to confess and to return from the past commemoration of those, who are expecting from us this heroic deed, as one of the Festival's participants says in the end of the film.
	festival.gluz.ru /eng/artists/f_sm_return.html (167 words)

	Samuel Rosenthal Center For Judaic Studies
		Solomon Mikhoels, its most famous actor and long-time director, attained international renown for his portrayal of a Yiddish-speaking King Lear and his wartime travels as the head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.
		In 1948, Mikhoels’s tragic murder—staged as an accident—ushered in a period of repression of intellectuals and Jews that culminated in the execution of all the leading Yiddish writers and threats against the life and liberty of all Jewish citizens.
		Mikhoels immersed himself in the work of the ill-starred Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, travelling to the United States and making a brief, unscheduled stop in Palestine where he was not allowed off the plane.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/rosenthal/reviews/moscow_theater.htm (996 words)

	Solomon Mikhoels: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Solomon Mikhoels (March 1890 - January 12/13, EHandler: no quick summary.
		(Mikhoels' career was threatened because of his association with other leading intelligentsia intelligentsia quick summary:
		Mikhoels was the most visible of the intellectual Jewish leadership, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/solomon_mikhoels.htm (1364 words)

	2006-01-27-Stalins last purge
		Mikhoels, the leading figure in the Yiddish Theatre, a winner of the Stalin Prize and a member of the Moscow City Council, never joined the Communist party, whereas the Yiddish poet Fefer was a loyal party member.
		In January of 1948, Mikhoels was invited to travel from Moscow to Minsk to participate in judging for a Stalin Prize.
		According to the documentary, Stalin's intention was not only to foment hatred against the Jews—and to later send as many as a half million Jews to exile—but also to "prove" that the KGB and their allies in the Politburo had known all along of the plot and had done nothing.
	www.jewishsightseeing.com /dhh_weblog/2006-blog/2006-01/2006-01-27-stalin_last-purge.htm (959 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Solomon Mikhoels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The chairman of the JAC was Solomon Mikhoels, a famous actor and director of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater.
		One of the victims, the internationally known actor and founder of the Moscow Yiddish Theatre, Solomon Mikhoels, was murdered in Minsk on orders from Stalin.
		This had happened, for example, to the Jewish actor Solomon Mikhoels, an outspoken Shostakovich supporter, in 1948.) Shostakovich constantly lived in fear that the same thing would happen to him...
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Mikhoels_Solomon_30947043.htm (244 words)

	Solomon Mikhoels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Young Mikhoels Solomon Mikhoels (March 1890 - January 12/13, 1948) was a Soviet Jewish actor and director in Yiddish theater.
		One of the last photographs Mikhoels was the most visible of the intellectual Jewish leadership, and a show trial would have cast aspersions on Stalin's rule.
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	HNH - Naxos Classical
		In Tashkent Vainberg had met and married Natalya, daughter of the Yiddish actor Solomon Mikhoels.
		The murder of Mikhoels on Stalin's orders, in a faked traffic accident in January 1948, was the starting shot of a five-year purge in which Jewish artists and doctors were accused of plotting Stalin's death.
		Solomon Volkov, the musician who conveyed Shostakovich's coruscating memoirs to the West, remembers Vainberg as "a small man, terrified for his life - they crushed him in prison".
	www.naxos.com /newDesign/fopinions.files/bopinions.files/opinions178.htm (1025 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		Mikhoels was already dead, assassinated on Stalin's orders the previous January.
		The emotional high point of the trial was the testimony of Solomon Lozovsky, at 73 the oldest defendant.
	www.forward.com /issues/2002/02.08.09/arts1.html (2147 words)

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