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Stalin and the Jews : the red book : the tragedy of the Jewish Anti-Faschist Committee and the Soviet Jews / Arno Lustiger ; introduction by Roman Brackman ; foreword by Yefim Etkind.

DS135.R92 L8713 1998

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Lustiger, Arno.
Contributor:: Brackman, Roman, 1931-
Standardized Title:: Rotbuch: Stalin und die Juden. English
Language:: English; German
Subjects (All):: Evreĭskiĭ antifashistskiĭ komitet v SSSR.; Jews--Soviet Union--History.; Jews.; History.; Soviet Union.; Evreĭskiĭ antifashistskiĭ komitet v SSSR--History.; Jews--Persecutions--Soviet Union.; Jews--Persecutions.; Jews--Soviet Union--Biography.; Soviet Union--Ethnic relations.; Ethnic relations.
Genre:: Biographies.
Physical Description:: xxviii, 447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:: First English language edition.
Place of Publication:: New York : Enigma, [2003]
Summary:: Arno Lustiger tells the epic story of the Russian Jews and the former Soviet Union for the first times. He begins with the tsars, moves through the upheaval of both 1917 Revolutions, details the Stalin era, and ends with the dissolution of the Soviet empire. This book documents the dramatic fate of the Jews during their emancipation, awakening, disorimination and persecution. The activitles of Jewish organizations and parties and their liquidation by the Bolsheviks, as well as the virulent anti-Semitism, increasing after a short blossoming of Jewish culture in the early 1920s and reaching its climax during the last three years of Stalin's dictatorship with the campaigns against "cosmopolitans," "Zionists" and the Kremlin doctors, are clearly described. At the core of the book is the history of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, founded in 1942, and the secret trial of its members which is recounted in greal detail. Lustiger analyzes the charges, deconstructs the language of Stalin's justice system and explains its ideological ramifications.
Contents:: The events; Part I History of the Russian Jews; 1. The Jews Under the Tsars 3; The Jews in Poland; The Cradle of Russian Judaism 4; Discrimination Under the Tsars 5; Assimilation and "Utilization" 7; Anti-Semitism and Pogroms 9; 2. The Jewish Parties 13; The Bund 13; The Anthem of the Bund 14; The Bund and Establishment of the RSDRP 16; The Zionists 19; Zion's Workers (Poale Zion) and Young Zionists (Ze'ire Zion) 21; Zionists-Socialists (Sionisty-Sozialisty; S.-S.) 22; Other Jewish Parties and Organizations 22; ORT 23; OSE 23; EKOPO and YIDGEZKOM 24; Thriving Cultural Life Despite Repression 25; 3. Jews in Russian Politics Before the October Revolution 25; Cadets 25; Mensheviks 26; Narodniki and Social Revolutionaries 27; Anarchists 29; Jewish Bolsheviks 30; Lenin and Stalin on the "Jewish Question" 31; 4. From the February Revolution to the October Revolution 34; The Jews in Independent Ukraine 1917-1920 37; Part II Janus-Faced Liberation: The Jewish Ascent After the October Revolution; 5. The Jews in Revolution and Civil War 41; The Pogroms 42; Jews in the Red Units 43; The End of the Bund 45; Lenin's Rhetoric Against the Pogrom Campaign 45; 6. The Jewish Commissariat Yerkom and the Jewish Party Section Yersektsiia 47; War Against Zionism 49; Persecution of the Jewish Religion 51; 7. Jewish Life Under the Dictatorship 53; The Jewish "Blossoming of Culture" 53; The Place of the Jews in Soviet Society 54; The Shift in Professional Structures 55; 8. Pseudo-Zion 57; "Productivity" and Survival of the Jewish Nation 57; The Crimea; A Soviet Palestine? 57; Birobidzan 60; Predictable Failure 60; 9. Under Stalin's Reign of Terror 63; The End of Yiddish Journalism 63; Jews in the Grip of Terror 64; The Extermination of the Leaders in Birobidzan 66; Jewish Critics of the Soviet System 69; Part III Prehistory and Foundation of the JAFC; 10. Anti-Fascism, Soviet Patriotism and Disguised Anti-Semitism on the Eve of World War II 71; A Land Without Anti-Semitism? 71; The Jews as the New "Judas" 73; Russian Nationalism Rekindled 74; The Diplomatic Service Becomes "Jew-Free" 75; First Investigations of a "Jewish Conspiracy" 77; 11. Persecution and Deliverance; The Jews at the Time of the German-Soviet Pact 78; Eastern Poland Under Soviet Rule 79; Mass Deportations 82; Murder of Polish-Jewish Officers in Katyn 83; Destruction of Jewish Culture in Poland and the Baltic Provinces 84; Deliberate Overlooking of German Crimes 86; 12. Henryk Erlich and Viktor Alter and the Creation of a Jewish Anti-Hitler Committee 87; Erlich and Alter in the Clutches of the NKVD 88; Free Again; The Struggle for an Anti-Hitler Initiative 90; New Arrests and Murders 92; Interventions on Behalf of Erlich and Alter 93; 13. Early Jewish Anti-Hitler Initiatives and the Founding of the JAFC 95; The First Meeting 96; The Founding of the JAFC 99; 14. Strategy of Silence; The Holocaust in the Soviet Information and Propaganda Policies 101; The War Against the Jews 102; Collaboration and Anti-Semitic Agitation 103; Silence About the Slaughter of the Jews 105; A Few Exceptions 106; No Attempt to Save the Jews 107; Part IV JAFC Activities Inside and Outside the Soviet Union; 15. The JAFC and Soviet War Propaganda 109; Propaganda and Nationalism 109; Additional Anti-Fascist Committees 111; The Second Meeting 112; The First Plenum of the JAFC 113; The Oath of the Jewish People 114; The Second Plenum 117; 16. The Organ of the JAFC; the Yiddish Newspaper Unification (Eynikeyt) 119; Eynikeyt's Changing Function 122; 17. The JAFC in America; Fundraising and "Treacherous" Contacts 123; Jewish Anti-Hitler Initiatives in the United States 123; Mikhoels and Fefer in America 125; Under the Control of the "Organs" 126; 18. Anti-Semitism Reappears in the Soviet Union and its Effect on the JAFC 127; Jews Are Not Welcome Here 127; First Attacks on the JAFC 130; Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in the Population 131; The Third Meeting 132; The Third Plenum 133; Outcome of the JAFC 134; 19. Jewish "Heroes of the Soviet Union," Jewish War Heroes, JAFC Members and Their Part in the Victory Over Germany 137; 20. The War on the Invisible Front 143; The "Rote Kapelle" 143; The Jewish Fighters of the "Rote Kapelle" 146; 21. The Crimea Under German Rule 147; A Soviet California with U.S. Aid? 148; The Crimea Memorandum 149; Part V The Fate of the JAFC After the War; 22. The History of the Black Book 157; The Beginnings of the Black Book 158; Competing Concepts 158; Material for Foreign Countries Only? 161; The Black Book 162; The First Complete Edition 164; What the Black Book Was Not to Contain 166; 23. Assisting in the Birth of Israel and Worsening of Anti-Zionism 169; Soviet-Palestine Policy During the War 169; Support for the Founding of Israel 170; Israel Enthusiasm Among the Soviet Jews 174; Ehrenburg and the Anti-Zionist About-Face 175; 24. Barrage of the Experts; the JAFC in the Investigators' Sights 177; Isolating the JAFC 178; Monopoly for Russian Nationalism 178; The Inquisitors Begin Their Work 180; State Security Pronounces the Death Sentence on the JAFC 182; The End of the JAFC 184; 25. The Attempt to Decapitate Soviet Judaism; the Murder of Solomon Mikhoels 185; Mikhoels as the Target 186; Stalin's Terror Against His Own Family 187; The Anti-Semitic Interrogations Begin 189; Killers on Behalf of the Government 191; State Funeral for the Victim of a State Murder 192; Part VI Open War Against the Jews; The Last Years of Stalin's Dictatorship; 26. The Campaign Against the "Rootless Cosmopolitans" and the Waves of Anti-Jewish Purges 195; Open Jew-Phobia: The Attack on the Theater Critics 195; The Extermination of "Cosmopolitanism" 199; Mass Dismissal of Jews 200; 27. The Destruction of the Last Remnants of Jewish Culture 202; The Fight Against "Bourgeois Nationalism" 203; Elimination of Jewish Cultural Institutions 204; 28. Pursuing the "Zionist Conspiracy" 206; American "Agents" 206; Zhemchuzhina: Political VIPs in the Dock 207; The Head of the JAFC Disappears 209; In the Torture Chamber of the MGB 211; The Downfall of Abakumov and the "Jewish Conspirators" in the MGB 215; Ryumin Takes Control 216; First Signs of a "Doctors" Conspiracy" 218; Part VII The Trial; 29. The Indictment 221; Verdict Before the Trial 221; The Indictment 222; 30. The Trial 224; Fefer; Witness for the Prosecution 225; Markish Counterattacks 228; Forced Confessions 229; "Jewish Nationalism" or Assimilation? 230; The Main Defendant 231; Torture and Testimony 233; An Agent Reveals Himself 234; The Accused: A Language 235; The Experts Disgrace Themselves 236; Last Declarations and Final Words 237; 31. The Sentence 239; A Judge Doubts 239; Legalized Murder 241; 32. The Rehabilitation of the JAFC 244; The Secret Proceedings of 1955 245; The Public Rehabilitation of 1989 246; Part VIII After the Trial; 33. A Catastrophe Averted; Stalin's Last Months 248; "Conspiracy of the Kremlin Doctors" 248; Were the Soviet Jews Going To Be Deported? 251; The Planned Letter of Jewish Personalities to Pravda 253; Letter to the Editorial Office of Pravda 256; 34. Developments in Eastern Europe 262; Stalinist Persecutions and Trials in Eastern Europe 263; The Slansky Trial 264; The Planned Trials in Poland 266; German-Jewish Communists 268; The Jews in the GDR 269; The Planned Show Trial in East Berlin 271; 35. State-Sponsored Anti-Semitism After Stalin 274; No Thaw Under Khrushchev 274; Anti-Semitism Disguised as "Anti-Zionism" 275; 36. Reaction of the Jews to State-Sponsored Anti-Semitism 276; International Conferences for Soviet Jews 276; The Jewish National and Emigration Movement in the Soviet Union 278; The Fight for the Right to Emigrate; The Refuseniks 281; The; Refusenik Colonels 283; Perestroika, Gorbachev, and the Jews 283; The Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public 284; Epilogue to the Refusenik Story 286; 37. In the Balance: Russian Jews Between Hitler and Stalin 288; The People; Mensheviks and Bundists 295; Zionists 302; Social Revolutionaries 303; Anarchists 306; Bolsheviks 307; Yevseki and Other Jewish Bolsheviks 313; Generals of the Red Army 316; The Precursors of the JAFC 323; The President of the JAFC 326; The (True) Chiefs of the JAFC 331; The Americans 334; The Editors of the Black Book 338; The Accused 344; The Other Persecuted and Victims 373; Authors and Editors of the Black Book 379; Members of the JAFC in May 1945 385; Members of the Presidium of the JAFC in May 1946 387; Murdered Yiddish Authors and Publishers 388; Yiddish Authors Killed in Action as Soviet Soldiers 389; Yiddish Authors Repressed 390; Hebrew Authors Murdered 391; Jewish Generals 391; Significant Publications About the JAFC 399; Archives and Journals 402; Articles and Journals About Soviet Jews 409.
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-409) and index.
ISBN:: 1929631103
OCLC:: 52414925

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