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Since her association with Leon Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader, Sylvia Ageloff has been demonised and vilified, pushed to the margins of history or simply ignored. What has been all too frequently lacking is any sense of respect, sympathy or understanding of her as a human being, a political activist and someone thrust into a situation not of her making. This short essay attempts to set the record straight.

Since her association with Leon Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader, Sylvia Ageloff has been demonised and vilified, pushed to the margins of history or simply ignored. What has been all too frequently lacking is any sense of respect, sympathy or understanding of her as a human being, a political activist and someone thrust into a situation not of her making. This short essay attempts to set the record straight.

We are seeing that antisemitism cannot be created or destroyed. It merely changes forms

Why was the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution seen as a “Jewish revolution” and what was life like for Jews in the USSR?

Doctors’ Plot, (1953), alleged conspiracy of prominent Soviet medical specialists to murder leading government and party officials; the prevailing opinion of many scholars outside the Soviet Union is that Joseph Stalin intended to use the resulting doctors’ trial to launch a massive party purge. On Jan. 13, 1953, the newspapers Pravda and Izvestiya announced that nine doctors, who had attended major Soviet leaders, had been arrested. They were charged with poisoning Andrey A. Zhdanov, Cent...

It's No Coincidence That State-sanctioned Expressions of Antisemitism Are on the Rise in Russia These Days. The Ukraine War Has Revived an Antique Form of Far-right Nationalism, in Which the Jews Have Always Been the Enemy

The Jewish News of Northern California

Who benefits when we decide—or accept—that the splinters of history are “beyond repair”?

Whenever as a child I came upon a description of people living their daily life during the 1940s, I reacted with disbelief. How can this be, when millions in Europe were experiencing incomprehensible horror? It felt inconceivable.

Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland: An Illustrated History, 1928 1996 by Weinberg, Robert at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  0520209893 - ISBN 13:  9780520209893 - University of California Press - 1998 - Hardcover