Jewish life in Soviet Union

In 1952, the last year of Stalin’s life, 15 Soviet Jews, including five prominent Yiddish writers and poets, were secretly tried and convicted of capital offenses, including treason, espionage, and bourgeois nationalism. They were targeted because of their involvement in the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and because of their heartfelt response as Jews to Nazi atrocities in occupied Soviet territory. On the night of August 12, 13 were secretly executed, a date remembered as the “Night of the Murdered Yiddish Poets.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Books and articles on August 12, 1952: “The Night of the Murdered Yiddish Poets” anon. The Soviet-Yiddish writers – in remembrance