ABSTRACT
More than four decades after their execution, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are irretrievably mythic figures, the subject of journalistic and scholarly studies in many languages, the inspiration for plays, novels, poems and a remarkable range of visual art—heroic martyrs to many on the Left; false-speaking ideologues who betrayed their country, their young sons, and their own humanity to many on the Right. It is impossible now to imagine that all the questions surrounding the Rosenberg case will ever be fully resolved.
