Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
כיוונים חדשים; כתב עת לענייני ציונות, יהדות, מדיניות, חברה ותרבות
Angaben zur Quelle:
12 (תשסה) 156-179
Keywords:
רוזנברג, אתל ויוליוס
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were members of the Communist Party in the U.S. until 1943. Julius worked as a civilian in the U.S. Army Signal Corps from 1940; in 1945, when his communist past was discovered, he was dismissed from the army. He and his wife were arrested in 1950 as members of a spy ring which provided the USSR with information on the atom bomb project at Los Alamos. They were tried in March-April 1951; many of the participants (aside from the jury) were Jews. Judge Irving Kaufman was criticized for some of his statements and his harsh sentence, which were seen by some as attempts to prove his own loyalty and that of other Jews to the state. Jewish organizations urged their communities to accept the decision of the court in order to avoid accusations of disloyalty, which might set off a wave of antisemitism. Some Jewish leaders, unofficial organizations, and newspapers strongly opposed the death sentence; they received more support in 1952, after the Slánský trial brought to the fore the issue of antisemitism. Notes that there was no doubt as to Julius' activities in the spy ring, but that Ethel's role, if she had one, was marginal. The fact that they were executed, while other members of the ring received much lighter sentences, shows that antisemitism was a factor in the trial. Seven appeals were made to the Supreme Court, but they were denied; the Rosenbergs were executed in June 1953.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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