Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Soviet Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
17,1 (1987) 31-48
Keywords:
Ėrenburg, Ilʹi︠a︡,
;
Stalin, Joseph,
Abstract:
Traces Ehrenburg's ambivalent attitude to the Jewish problem from 1945-53. In September 1946 the campaign against "cultural cosmopolitanism" began. Ehrenburg, a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee who had deep ties to France and Western culture, was in danger. His novel "The Storm", written in 1946, thus followed the official line. While it shows brave and patriotic Jewish characters and their experience of antisemitism and the Holocaust, they see themselves as Soviets, Frenchmen, and communists, not Jews. Quotes Ehrenburg's speech in May 1948 in memory of Solomon Mikhoels, describing him as an ardent Soviet patriot and praising Israel's fight for independence. Yet, in September 1948 Ehrenburg published an anti-Israel article in "Pravda". During the anti-Jewish purges, Ehrenburg went on missions to the West to dispel rumors about persecution of the Jews. However, during the "Doctors' Plot", Ehrenburg refused to sign a letter "requesting" deportation of the Jews and warned Stalin of the effect on opinion abroad.
DOI:
10.1080/13501678708577559
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