Stalin's Secret Pogrom : The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Translation -- Chronology -- INTRODUCTION. Night of the Murdered Poets -- PART ONE. Court Record of the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court, May 8-July 18,1952 -- Testimony by the Defendants -- ISAAC FEFER -- EMILIA TEUMIN -- PERETZ MARKISH -- DAVID BERGELSON -- LEYB KVITKO -- DAVID HOFSHTEYN -- JOSEPH YUZEFOVICH -- SOLOMON LOZOVSKY -- BORIS SHIMELIOVICH -- SOLOMON BREGMAN -- Statements by Isaac Fefer and Joseph Yuzefovich in Closed Judicial Session -- Testimony by the Defendants -- SOLOMON BREGMAN CONTINUED -- LEON TALMY -- ILYA VATENBERG -- KHAYKE VATENBERG-OSTROVSKAYA -- BENJAMIN ZUSKIN -- LINA SHTERN -- Experts' Testimony in Closed Judicial Session, June 26 -- Experts' Testimony in Closed Judicial Session, June 27 -- Experts' Testimony in Closed Judicial Session, June 28 -- Determination Regarding the Defendants' Petitions -- Testimony by the Defendants -- LINA SHTERN CONTINUED -- ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY -- Determination to Separate Solomon Bregman's Case -- Statement by Isaac Fefer in Closed Judicial Session -- The Defendants' Final Statements -- The Sentence -- PART TWO. The Resolution: Post-Trial Documents -- Certificate That the Sentence Was Carried Out, August 12,1952 -- Death Certificate for Solomon Bregman, January 23, 1953 -- Determination to Cease Solomon Bregman's Prosecution, June 3, 1953 -- Determination to Annul the Sentence and Terminate the Case of Lozovsky et al., November 22, 1955 -- Notes -- Index -- Illustrations.

In the spring and summer of 1952, fifteen Soviet Jews, including five prominent Yiddish writers and poets, were secretly tried and convicted; multiple executions soon followed in the basement of Moscow's Lubyanka prison. The defendants were falsely charged with treason and espionage because of their involvement in the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, and because of their heartfelt response as Jews to Nazi atrocities on occupied Soviet territory. Stalin had created the committee to rally support for the Soviet Union during World War II, but he then disbanded it after the war as his paranoia mounted about Soviet Jews. For many years, a host of myths surrounded the case against the committee. Now this book, which presents an abridged version of the long-suppressed transcript of the trial, reveals the Kremlin's machinery of destruction. Joshua Rubenstein provides annotations about the players and events surrounding the case. In a long introduction, drawing on newly released documents in Moscow archives and on interviews with relatives of the defendants in Israel, Russia, and the United States, Rubenstein also sets the trial in historical and political context and offers a vivid account of Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign.

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