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

by Edited by Joshua Rubenstein and Vladimir P. Naumov; Translated by Laura Esther W

• ISBN13: 9780300084863
• ISBN10: 0300084862
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-04-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

In 1952 fifteen Soviet Jews, including five prominent poets and writers, were falsely accused, secretly tried, and convicted of treason and espionage. Thirteen were executed, one died in a prison hospital, and one was exiled. This book presents the long-suppressed transcript of the trial, revealing the Kremlin's machinery of destruction and dispelling the host of myths that have surrounded this horrifying episode. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Joshua Rubenstein is the Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA and a longtime associate at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian Studies Back, Solomon Mikhoels and Itsik Fefer with New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Vladimir P. Naumov
Acknowledgments	xxi
Note on the Translation	xxiv
Chronology	xxvi
Introduction. Night of the Murdered Poets	1	(64)
Joshua Rubenstein
PART ONE. Court Record of the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court, May 8-July 18, 1952	65	(430)
Testimony by the Defendants	75	(3)
Isaac Fefer	78	(31)
Emilia Teumin	109	(10)
Peretz Markish	119	(25)
David Bergelson	144	(15)
Leyb Kvitko	159	(26)
David Hofshteyn	185	(17)
Joseph Yuzefovich	202	(16)
Solomon Lozovsky	218	(68)
Boris Shimeliovich	286	(25)
Solomon Bregman	311	(15)
Statements by Isaac Fefer and Joseph Yuzefovich in Closed Judicial Session	324	(2)
Testimony by the Defendants	326	(1)
Solomon Bregman Continued	326	(7)
Leon Talmy	333	(19)
Ilya Vatenberg	352	(19)
Khayke Vatenberg-Ostrovskaya	371	(10)
Benjamin Zuskin	381	(19)
Lina Shtern	400	(29)
Experts' Testimony in Closed Judicial Session, June 26	417	(4)
Experts' Testimony in Closed Judicial Session, June 27	421	(3)
Experts' Testimony in Closed Judicial Session, June 28	424	(4)
Determination Regarding the Defendants' Petitions	428	(1)
Testimony by the Defendants	429	(1)
Lina Shtern Continued	429	(1)
Additional Testimony	430	(65)
Determination to Separate Solomon Bregman's Case	469	(1)
Statement by Isaac Fefer in Closed Judicial Session	470	(2)
The Defendants' Final Statements	472	(10)
The Sentence	482	(13)
PART TWO. The Resolution: Post-Trial Documents	495	(12)
Certificate That the Sentence Was Carried Out, August 12, 1952	495	(1)
Death Certificate for Solomon Bregman, January 23, 1953	496	(1)
Determination to Cease Solomon Bregman's Prosecution, June 3, 1953	497	(2)
Determination to Annual the Sentence and Terminate the Case of Lozovsky et al., November 22, 1955	499	(8)
Notes	507	(10)
Index	517