Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Social Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
25,3 (2020) 103-129
Keywords:
Ṿergelis, Arn
;
Sovetish Heymland (Moscow)
;
Jewish journalists Biography
;
Jews Social conditions
;
Jews Government policy
;
Cold War
;
United States Public opinion
Abstract:
In November 1963, Aron Vergelis, editor of the Moscow Yiddish journal Sovetish Heymland (1961-1991), visited the United States for the first time. This was the first American voyage of a Soviet Jewish cultural personality since 1943, when Solomon Mikhoels and the Yiddish poet Itsik Fefer famously toured the United States as leaders of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. As it turned out, this would be the beginning of Vergelis's quarter-century career as a globetrotting Cold War era propagandist. This article analyzes the circumstances by which Vergelis, a figure of modest influence and stature, appeared as a visible figure in the arena of Soviet-Western ideological confrontation.
DOI:
10.2979/jewisocistud.25.3.04
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