Stalin and the Black Book of Soviet Jewry
Wilson Center, January 29, 2019, 3pm-5:30pm
In 1944, Soviet writers Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman together with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee prepared a 500-page book of testimonials about the mass murder and resistance of the Soviet Jews during the Holocaust. Shortly before publication, Stalin reversed his decision to publish the book, members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee were executed, and silence descended upon the memory of the Holocaust. The Black Book would not be published in Russia until 2014. In this event, we will screen excerpts from Israeli filmmaker Boris Maftsir’s upcoming documentary exploring the fate of the Black Book and consider Stalin’s views and policies vis-à-vis Soviet Jewry.
This event is part of a series organized by the Kennan Institute in honor of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, with support from the Embassy of Israel in the United States and Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University. For more information about the series, please visit our website.
Speakers
Boris Maftsir
Documentary Filmmaker
Zvi Gitelman
Short-Term Scholar, Kennan InstituteProfessor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Joshua Rubenstein
Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Event Co-sponsors
Sponsors:
EMBASSY OF ISRAEL IN THE UNITED STATES
RABIN CHAIR FORUM AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
LEADERSHIP, ETHICS, AND PRACTICE INITIATIVE AT THE ELLIOTT SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN, RUSSIAN, AND EURASIAN STUDIES
EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON, DC
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