1952 ⟶ Execution of Soviet Yiddish Writers

The Night of the Murdered Poets. The thirteen most prominent...
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1953

✍️ 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.⟶
Execution of Soviet Yiddish Writers (1952)
Soviet UnionStalinismYiddish cultureJewish intellectualsThe Night of the Murdered PoetsPersecutionAnti-SemitismCold War
Soviet UnionSoviet Union

⚖️ Prague Trials

The Prague Trials in Czechoslovakia.⟶
Prague Trials (1952)
Prague TrialsShow trialsCommunismAnti-SemitismCold WarCzechoslovakiaZionism
Czech RepublicCzech 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' Plot False Accusation (1953)
Doctors' plotSoviet UnionAnti-SemitismStalinismFalse accusationsAnti-ZionismCold WarPersecution
Soviet UnionSoviet Union