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Stalin’s postwar antisemitic purges

    Black and white photo. Balding, bespectacled Izik Feffer stands at left wearing an unbuttoned light gray-tone suit and grey-tone striped tie. Albert Einstein, distinguished by his unruly white hair and the white mustache that covers his upper lip, stands at center wearing a dark gray-tone, v-neck wool sweater. A balding Solomon Mikhoels stands at right, shown wearing a dark suit. The men are smiling and engaged in conversation.

    Izik Feffer, Albert Einstein, & Solomon Mikhoels in the United States, 1943. They were members of the American Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Robeson joined a tour with members of this committee to raise funds for Stalin’s war against Hitler. Feffer & Mikhoels, both representatives of Yiddish arts and friends of Robeson, were murdered in Stalin’s antisemitic purges 1949–1952. Robeson publicly denied knowledge of the purges.

    1943
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    Mondadori Publishers, Italy; via “Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee,” Wikipedia