ABSTRACT
As the central document of declaration of the meeting formulated a “new type of the Jew” who had been educated by the Soviet power and they subsequently became “our glorious warriors and commanders of the Red Army” and the “knights of power and soul. The Ehrenburg letter initiated a massive series of letters by Pravda readers, mostly but not exclusively by Jewish readers. The Jewish Antifascist Committee received numerous letters in 1948 from Soviet citizens in which the authors expressed their solidarity with Israel, and in many cases, their will to join Israel’s war for survival. The Soviet anti-Jewish measures, changing the potential chain of events starting in 1948, could easily tempt anyone to attribute them to one single and simple phenomenon: either Stalin’s alleged personal dislike of the Jews, or the regeneration of the Ehrenburgian microbes and viruses of Russian traditional anti-Semitism.
