Solomon Mikhoels - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre: Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre
Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Eastern European Ashkenazaic Je...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vasily Grossman: Encyclopedia Ii - Vasily Grossman - Biography
Born Iosif Solomonovich Grossman in Berdichev, Ukraine into an emancipated Jewish family, he did not receive a traditional Jewish educati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Yiddish Theatre - Precursors And Early Influences
Noah Prilutski (1882–1941) noted that Yiddish theatre did not arise simultaneously with theatre in other European "national" languages;...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Yiddish Theatre - The First Rumblings
Although professional Yiddish theatre is generally dated from 1876, there are earlier claimants to the title. Although there was briefly ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yevsektsiya: Encyclopedia - Yevsektsiya
Yevsektsiya (alternative spelling: Yevsektsia), Russian: ЕвСекция, the abbreviation of the phrase "Еврейская секци�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vyacheslav Molotov: Encyclopedia - Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (Russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Мо́лотов) (February 25, 1890 (O.S.) (March 9,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Yiddish Theatre - The Effect Of The Holocaust
Like the rest of Yiddish-language culture, Yiddish theatre was devastated by the Holocaust. A major portion of the world's Yiddish-speake...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Yiddish Theatre - The Early Years
Abraham Goldfaden is generally considered the founder of the first professional Yiddish theatre troupe, which he founded in Iaşi, Romani...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Yiddish Theatre - The Heyday Of Yiddish Theater
The 1883 Russian ban (eventually lifted in 1904) effectively pushed Yiddish theatre to Western Europe and then to America; over the next ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Yiddish Theatre - The Russian Era
If Yiddish theatre was born in Romania, its youth occurred largely in Imperial Russia, largely in what is now Ukraine. Israel Rosenberg's...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Yiddish Theatre - London
Of the next era of Yiddish theatre, Adler wrote, "...if Yiddish theater was destined to go through its infancy in Russia, and in America ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paul Robeson: Encyclopedia Ii - Paul Robeson - Communism And The Mccarthy Era
He was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) that attempted to cite him for refusal to sign the non-communist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yevsektsiya: Encyclopedia Ii - Yevsektsiya - Languages And Culture
Lenin wrote in his Critical Remarks on the National Question (1913): "Whoever directly or indirectly puts forward the slogan of a Jewish ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Anti-fascist Committee: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Anti-fascist Committee - Activities
Solomon Mikhoels, the popular actor and director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater, was appointed the JAC chairman. The JAC's newspaper ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Russians: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Russians - Art
List of Russians - Architects. Vasily Bazhenov (1738-1799) Savva Chevakinsky (1709-between 1774 and 1780) Matvei Kazakov (1738-1812) A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union - After The October Revolution 1917-1991
History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Under Lenin 1917-1924. In March 1919, Lenin delivered a speech "On Anti-Jewish Pog...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union - After The October Revolution 1917-1991
History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Under Lenin 1917-1924. In March 1919, Lenin delivered a speech "On Anti-Jewish Pog...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Russian Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Russian Jews - Historical Figures
List of Russian Jews - Politicians. Alexey Arbatov, Russian politician & defence analyst Georgy Arbatov, Soviet politician, academ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rootless Cosmopolitan: Encyclopedia Ii - Rootless Cosmopolitan - Background
Towards the end and immediately after World War II, the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) grew increasingly influential to the post-Hol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vyacheslav Molotov: Encyclopedia Ii - Vyacheslav Molotov - Postwar Career
In the postwar period Molotov's position began to decline. In 1949 he was replaced as Foreign Minister by Andrei Vishinsky, retaining his...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - Rise To Power
Beria was born, the son of a peasant, in Merkheuli, near Sukhumi in the Abkhazian region of Georgia. He was educated at a technical schoo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctors' Plot: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctors' Plot - The Second Holocaust Controversy
Some people think that the scenario of the "Doctors' plot" was reminiscent of the previous Stalin purges of the late 1930s, and the plan ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - Ancient Animosity Towards Jews
3rd century BCE: Manetho, a Hellenistic Egyptian chronicler and priest, alleges that Moses was not a Jew, but an Egyptian renegade priest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vyacheslav Molotov: Encyclopedia Ii - Vyacheslav Molotov - Prime Minister
When Bukharin's ally Alexei Rykov was removed as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (Prime Minister) in 1930, Molotov succeed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vyacheslav Molotov: Encyclopedia Ii - Vyacheslav Molotov - Early Career
In 1916 Molotov became a member of Bolshevik Party's committee in Petrograd (as St Petersburg had been renamed), and when the February Re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vyacheslav Molotov: Encyclopedia Ii - Vyacheslav Molotov - Foreign Minister
In 1939, following the Munich agreement of 1938 by which Britain and France surrendered Czechoslovakia to Hitler, Stalin decided that it ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctors' Plot: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctors' Plot - Stalin's Death And The Consequences
After Stalin's death on March 5, the new leadership admitted that the charges had been entirely invented by Stalin and his cohorts. The c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctors' Plot: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctors' Plot - Arrests
Initially, thirty-seven were arrested, but the number quickly grew into hundreds. Scores of Soviet Jews were promptly dismissed from thei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 16th Century
1505 Ten České Budějovice Jews are tortured and executed for killing a Christian girl; later, on deathbed, shepherd confesses to fabri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 4th Century
306 The Synod of Elvira bans intermarriage between Christians and Jews. Other social intercourses, such as eating together, are also forb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paul Robeson: Encyclopedia Ii - Paul Robeson - Actor And Singer
Robeson found fame as an actor and singer with his fine bass voice. In addition to his stage performances, his renditions of old Negro sp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paul Robeson: Encyclopedia Ii - Paul Robeson - Education
Paul graduated with honors from Somerville High School in 1915. He won a scholarship to Rutgers University. He was only the third African...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paul Robeson: Encyclopedia Ii - Paul Robeson - Critic Of The United States
On his frequent trips to Western Europe and the Soviet Union he was highly critical of the conditions experienced by black Americans, esp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 5th Century
415 Jews are accused of ritual murder during Purim. The Church confiscates or burns synagogues in Antioch, Magona, Alexandria. Bishop (St...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paul Robeson: Encyclopedia Ii - Paul Robeson - Epilogue
Although Robeson is one of the great forerunners in Black equality, the Joseph McCarthy era virtually erased his memory from the consciou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paul Robeson: Encyclopedia Ii - Paul Robeson - Death And Burial
Paul Robeson died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1976 at the age of 77 where he had been living with his sister. He was interred in the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rootless Cosmopolitan: Encyclopedia Ii - Rootless Cosmopolitan - About One Antipatriotic Group Of Theater Critics
The state-wide campaign was set out by an article appeared in Pravda on January 28, 1949 entitled About one antipatriotic group of theate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - Allegations Against Beria
Although Beria was formally convicted for being a British spy, the Communist Leadership has early on sought to spice up the charges with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctors' Plot: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctors' Plot - Background
In the course of the Cold War and the State of Israel allying with the West, the Soviet regime eliminated the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union - Jews And Bolshevism
Many members of the Bolshevik party were ethnically Jewish, especially in the leadership of the party, and the percentage of Jewish party...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union - The Collapse Of The Soviet Union And Emigration To Israel
A mass emigration was politically undesirable for the Soviet regime. As increasing number of Soviet Jews applied to emigrate to Israel in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union - Jews In Russia Today
History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Jewish life. Since the dissolution of the USSR, democratization in the former USSR...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union - Demographic Data
The official census data on Jewish population of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union.[15] The number of Jews has fallen from about 2.15 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union - Assimilation Trends
In the Tsarist Russia, assimilation, russification and conversion to the state religion of Orthodox Christianity were official policies. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union - Tsarist Russia 1480s-1917
Documentary evidence as to the presence of Jews in Muscovite Russia is first found in the chronicles of 1471. The relatively small popula...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union - Early History
Tradition places Jews in southern Russia, Armenia, and Georgia since before the days of the First Temple, and records exist from the four...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctors' Plot: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctors' Plot - An Article In Pravda
On January 13, 1953, some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors in the USSR were accused of taking part in a vast plot to poison ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - Allegations Against Beria
Although Beria was formally convicted for being a British spy, the Communist Leadership early on sought to spice up the charges with info...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Russian Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Russian Jews - Scientists
List of Russian Jews - Natural scientists. Alexei Abrikosov, physicist, Nobel Prize (2003) (Jewish mother) Georgy Adelson-Velsky, math...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Russian Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Russian Jews - Cultural Figures
List of Russian Jews - Musicians. Lera Auerbach, composer Vladimir Ashkenazi, pianist (Jewish father) Yefim Bronfman, pianist Rudolf B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Russian Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Russian Jews - Sport Figures
List of Russian Jews - Chess. Yuri Averbakh, Grandmaster Mikhail Botvinnik, World Champion Semen Abramovich Furman, Chess player Garry...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Russian Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Russian Jews - Business Figures
List of Russian Jews - Entrepreneurs. Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google Maurice Greenberg, founder of Coleco Michael Kogan, founder of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Russians: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Russians - Former Soviet Union
During the times of the Soviet Union nationals of other constituent republics were traditionally known as "Russians" in the West. Some of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Russians: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Russians - Sports
List of Russians - Chess. Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik Anatoly Karpov Garry Kasparov (b. 1963, fathe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 21st Century
2003 October 16. The Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohammed draws standing ovation at the 57-member Organization of the Islamic C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 20th Century
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Roman Catholic Church adhered to a distinction between "good anti-Semitism" and "bad anti-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union - Early History
Tradition places Jews in southern Russia, Armenia, and Georgia since before the days of the First Temple, and records exist from the four...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union - Tsarist Russia 1480s-1917
Documentary evidence as to the presence of Jews in Muscovite Russia is first found in the chronicles of 1471. The relatively small popula...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 9th Century
807 Abbassid Caliph Harun al-Rashid orders all Jews in the Calipate to wear a yellow belt, with Christians to wear a blue one. 820 After ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union - Jews And Bolshevism
Many members of the Bolshevik party were ethnically Jewish, especially in the leadership of the party, and the percentage of Jewish party...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 19th Century
1805 Massacre of Jews in Algeria. 1815 Pope Pius VII reestablishes the ghetto in Rome after the defeat of Napoleon. 1819 A series of anti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 18th Century
1711 Johann Andreas Eisenmenger writes his Entdecktes Judenthum ("Judaism Unmasked"), a work denouncing Judaism and which had a formative...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 13th Century
13th century Germany. Appearance of Judensau: obscene and dehumanizing imagery of Jews, ranging from etchings to Cathedral ceilings. Its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 12th Century
1107 Moroccan Almoravid ruler Yoseph Ibn Tashfin orders all Moroccan Jews to convert or leave. 1143 150 Jews killed in Ham, France. 1144 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 14th Century
1305 Philip IV of France seizes all Jewish property (except the clothes they wear) and expels them from France (approx. 100,000). His suc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 15th Century
1411 Oppressive legislation against Jews in Spain as an outcome of the preaching of the Dominican friar Vicente Ferrer. 1413 Disputation ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 17th Century
1603 Frei Diogo Da Assumpacao, a partly Jewish friar who embraced Judaism, burned alive in Lisbon. 1608 The Jesuit order forbids admissio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union - The Collapse Of The Soviet Union And Emigration To Israel
A mass emigration was politically undesirable for the Soviet regime. As increasing number of Soviet Jews applied to emigrate to Israel in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union - Jews In Russia Today
History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Jewish life. Since the dissolution of the USSR, democratization in the former USSR...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - Allegations Against Beria
Since Beria's death many more accusations have been made against him. These include allegations that he raped numerous women, and that he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - Beria's Fall
Accounts of Beria's fall vary considerably. According to the most recent accounts Khrushchev convened a meeting of the Praesidium on June...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 6th Century
519 Ravenna, Italy. After the local synagogues were burned down by the local mob, Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great orders the town to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Russians: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Russians - Cosmonauts
List of Russians - A-N. Yuri Artyukhin Pavel Belyayev (1925-1970) Georgi Beregovoi (1921-1995) Valery Bykovsky Lev Demin Georgi Dobrov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Russians: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Russians - Statesmen And Military
List of Russians - Before 1917. See also Tsar for the list of old Russian rulers Alexis (1629-1676), "Aleksey Mikhaylovich the Quiet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Russians: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Russians - Scientists
List of Russians - A-K. Alexei Abrikosov, physicist, Nobel Prize recipient Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, mathematician Viktor Amazasp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - After Stalin
On March 5, 1953 Stalin died four days after collapsing during the night following a dinner with Beria and other Soviet leaders. The poli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - Postwar Politics
With Stalin nearing 70, the postwar years were dominated by a concealed struggle for the succession among his lieutenants. At the end of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union - Demographic Data
The official census data on Jewish population of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union.[15] The number of Jews has fallen from about 2.15 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Russia And The Soviet Union - Assimilation Trends
In the Tsarist Russia, assimilation, russification and conversion to the state religion of Orthodox Christianity were official policies. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 8th Century
717 Caliph Omar II introduces discriminatory regulations against the dhimmi, among them for Jews to wear a special yellow garb. 722 Byzan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Anti-fascist Committee: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Anti-fascist Committee - Persecution
Towards the end and immediately after the war, the JAC got involved in documenting the Holocaust. This ran contrary to the official Sovie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - Beria At The Nkvd
In August 1938 Stalin brought Beria to Moscow as deputy head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the ministry which...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 7th Century
610-620 Visigothic Hispania After many of his anti-Jewish edicts were ignored, king Sisebur prohibits Judaism. Those not baptized fled. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 11th Century
1008-1013 Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah issues severe restrictions against Jews in the Land of Israel. All Jews are forced to wear...   » Read the article