The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee: What Happened and Why

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The papers examine the fate of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) in the immediate postwar period, and its broader implications for the experience of Jews in the Soviet Union. Within the larger context of the antisemitic campaign of the late Stalinist period, they focus on the activities of the Committee and the actions of the Soviet government, from the Committee's wartime heyday to its elimination and the arrest and prosecution of its members.

Sub Unit

• Jewish Studies

Papers

• From Disparagement to Destruction: The Long Effort to Eliminate the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee - Wendy Z. Goldman, Carnegie Mellon U

• Echo of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee Affair in Kyiv - Victoria M. Khiterer, Millersville U

• Memorialization and Memory: The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and the Fate of The Black Book in the Postwar Period - Susan Zayer Rupp, Wake Forest U

Discussant

• Anna Shternshis, U of Toronto (Canada)