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Feffer had been an informer for the NKVD ( predecessor of the KGB ) since 1943.
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Feffer had also allegedly been one of the " most loyal and conformist Yiddish poets ," helped to enforce strict ideological control over other Yiddish writers, and had a history of denouncing colleagues for their " nationalistic hysteria "..
The reality was that Feffer had already been in prison for three years, and his Soviet captors did not want to bring him to Robeson immediately because he had become emaciated for lack of food.
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Herman's position on the Srebrenica massacre has been criticized, in addition to Shaw and Marko Attila Hoare, by John Feffer.
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On July 16, 1943, Pravda reported: " Mikhoels and Feffer received a message from Chicago that a special conference of the Joint initiated a campaign to finance a thousand ambulances for the needs of the Red Army.
While Robeson waited in Moscow, Stalin's police brought Feffer out of prison, put him the care of doctors, and began fattening him up for the interview.
Feffer and 1943
In 1943, Mikhoels and Itzik Feffer, the first official representatives of the Soviet Jewry allowed to visit the West, embarked on a seven-month tour to the USA, Mexico, Canada and Britain to drum up their support.
The American concert singer and actor Paul Robeson met Feffer on July 8, 1943 in New York during a Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee event chaired by Albert Einstein, one of the largest pro-Soviet rallies ever held in the United States.
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* Hardliners Target Détente with North Korea – Suzy Kim and John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, February 11, 2008.
Itzik Feffer ( 1900 – August 12, 1952 ), also Fefer ( Yiddish איציק פ ֿ עפ ֿ ער, Russian Ицик Фефер, Исаàк Соломòнович Фèфер ) was a Soviet Yiddish poet executed on the Night of the Murdered Poets during Joseph Stalin's purges.
Itzik Feffer was born in Shpola, a town in Zvenigorod uyezd ( district ) of Kiev guberniya, Imperial Russia.
In 1948, after the assassination of the JAC Chairman Solomon Mikhoels, Feffer, along with other JAC members, was arrested and accused of treason.
Feffer reportedly cooperated with the investigation, providing false information that would lead to the arrest and indictment of over a hundred people, but at the trial made openly nationalistic statements and expressed pride in his Jewish identity.
However, in 1952 Feffer, along with other defendants, was tried at a closed JAC trial, and executed on August 12, 1952 at Lubyanka prison.
Feffer was rehabilitated posthumously in 1955 after Stalin's death.
After the rally, Paul Robeson and his wife Eslanda Robeson, befriended Feffer and Mikhoels.
There was talk in intellectual circles that Jews were being killed in a new Soviet purge and that Feffer was one of them.
Feffer knew he could not speak freely.
During his concert in Tchaikovsky Hall on June 14-which was broadcast across the entire country-Robeson publicly paid tribute to Feffer and the late Mikhoels, singing the Vilna Partisan song " Zog Nit Keynmol " in both Russian and Yiddish.
Feffer was a prolific poet, who wrote almost exclusively in Yiddish, and his poems were widely translated into Russian and Ukrainian.
Reuben Feffer ( Ben Stiller ), a risk assessment expert, is celebrating his honeymoon with newlywed wife, Lisa Kramer ( Debra Messing ), on the island of St. Barts but catches her having sex with Claude ( Hank Azaria ), a French scuba instructor.
Vakils, Feffer and Simons Ltd. ( Mumbai, 2000 ).
* Feffer, John, " The Organic Alternative: Slovenia, the European Union, and the Debate over Sustainable Agriculture.
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In 2010, she began a tenure-line appointment in the English Department at Western Michigan University, where she joined Jaimy Gordon, William Olsen, Nancy Eimers, Steve Feffer, and Richard Katrovas in the Creative Writing Program.
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If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.
They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.
They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.
With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.
He had been carrying an Enfield rifle and a holstered navy cap-and-ball pistol.
But the luck that had been running their way left him.
His shout had been taken up and repeated.
A sizable supply of powder had been touched off.
The worst part had been the waiting ; ;
The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.
And one had been too many.
That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.
The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.
He had been one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.
He had been the auditor for the mining syndicate, and he had stolen fifty thousand dollars of the syndicate's money.
Then the vein had petered out and the whole project had been abandoned.
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