1953 ⟶ Doctors' Plot False Accusation
The Doctors' plot false accusation in the USSR. Scores of So...
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🩸 Ritual Murder Accusation in Brest-Litovsk
Brest-Litovsk: the son of a wealthy Jewish tax collector is accused of killing the family's Christian servant for ritual purposes. He is tortured and executed in line with the law. King Sigismund II of Poland forbids future charges of ritual murder, calling them groundless.⟶
Ritual murderBrest-LitovskPoland16th CenturyFalse accusationsKing Sigismund IIAnti-Semitism
Belarus
Poland👤 Solomon Mikhoels' Death and Suppression of Jewish Culture
Solomon Mikhoels, actor-director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee is killed in a suspicious car accident (see MGB). Mass arrests of prominent Jewish intellectuals and suppression of Jewish culture follow under the banners of campaign on rootless cosmopolitanism and Anti-Zionism.⟶
RussiaSoviet UnionMikhoelsJewish CultureAnti-ZionismAnti-SemitismPost-WarViolenceRootless Cosmopolitanism
Russia✍️ Execution of Soviet Yiddish Writers
The Night of the Murdered Poets. The thirteen most prominent Soviet Yiddish writers, poets, actors and other intellectuals were executed, among them Peretz Markish, Leib Kwitko, David Hofstein, Itzik Feffer, David Bergelson. In 1955 UN General Assembly's session a high Soviet official still denied the "rumors" about their disappearance.⟶
Soviet UnionStalinismYiddish cultureJewish intellectualsThe Night of the Murdered PoetsPersecutionAnti-SemitismCold War
Soviet Union⚖️ Prague Trials
The Prague Trials in Czechoslovakia.⟶
Prague TrialsShow trialsCommunismAnti-SemitismCold WarCzechoslovakiaZionism
Czech Republic🏥 Doctors' Plot False Accusation
The Doctors' plot false accusation in the USSR. Scores of Soviet Jews dismissed from their jobs, arrested, some executed. The USSR was accused of pursuing a "new antisemitism." Stalinist opposition to "rootless cosmopolitans" – a euphemism for Jews – was rooted in the belief, as expressed by Klement Gottwald, that "treason and espionage infiltrate the ranks of the Communist Party. This channel is Zionism." This newer antisemitism was, in effect, a species of anti-Zionism.⟶
Doctors' plotSoviet UnionAnti-SemitismStalinismFalse accusationsAnti-ZionismCold WarPersecution
Soviet Union🇵🇱 Polish State-Organized Anti-Semitic Campaign
Polish 1968 political crisis. The state-organized antisemitic campaign in the People's Republic of Poland under guise of "anti-Zionism" drives out most of remaining Jewish population.⟶
Anti-ZionismPolandEastern EuropeCold WarJewish emigration1960sPersecutionState-sponsored antisemitismPolitical Crisis
Poland