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The Night of the Murdered Poets refers to the night of 12 to 13 August 1952, when thirteen of the most prominent Yiddish writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
s, poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
s, artist
Artist

The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
s, musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
s and actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
s of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 were secretly executed on the orders from Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953....
 in the basement of the Lubyanka prison in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
. Ten "engineer saboteurs" from the Stalin automobile factory, all Jewish, were also executed the same night.

Among the victims were:






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The Night of the Murdered Poets refers to the night of 12 to 13 August 1952, when thirteen of the most prominent Yiddish writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
s, poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
s, artist
Artist

The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
s, musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
s and actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
s of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 were secretly executed on the orders from Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953....
 in the basement of the Lubyanka prison in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
. Ten "engineer saboteurs" from the Stalin automobile factory, all Jewish, were also executed the same night.

Among the victims were:
  • Peretz Markish
    Peretz Markish

    Peretz Markish was a Jewish Soviet writer who wrote in Yiddish. His very distant ancestors lived in Spain. As a child he attended a cheder and was singing in the choir of the local synagogue....
  • David Bergelson
    David Bergelson

    David Bergelson was a Yiddish language writer. Ukraine-born, he lived for a time in Berlin, Germany. He moved back to the Soviet Union when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany....
  • Itzik Fefer
  • Leib Kwitko
  • David Hofstein
    David Hofstein

    David Hofstein was a Yiddish language poet.He was born in Ukraine and received a traditional Jewish education; his application to the Kiev University was declined....
  • Benjamin Zuskin
    Benjamin Zuskin

    Benjamin Zuskin was a Jewish actor and director in Moscow State Jewish Theater. Zuskin had a title of the People's actor of the RSFSR. He was a laureate of the Stalin Prize in 1946....
  • Solomon Lozovsky
    Solomon Lozovsky

    Solomon Lozovsky was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary, a high official in various parts of the Soviet government, including as a Presidium member of the Soviet trade union, a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, a member of the Supreme Soviet, a deputy people's commissar for foreign affairs and the head o...
  • Boris Shimeliovich
    Boris Shimeliovich

    Boris Abramovich Shimeliovich was the medical director of Moscow's Botkin Hospital, a well known and widely respected institution.Born in Riga, he was an active Russian Revolution of 1917 who participated in the Russian Civil War and eventually became active in Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee ....


See also

  • Stalinism and antisemitism
  • Solomon Mikhoels
    Solomon Mikhoels

    Solomon Mikhoels ; was a Soviet Union Jewish actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater. Mikhoels served as the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during the World War II....


External links

  • By Shai Franklin
  • National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ) August 12, 2002, Letter from President Bush, links
  • (introduction) by Joshua Rubenstein
  • by Joseph Sherman
  • by Jonathan Tobin