As never before. the Jew was singled out and stigmatized as an alien. a stranger with no attachment to his native land. Culminating this treacherous drive was the arrest. in 1948. of leading Jewish personalitiesartists. musicians. government and party officials. and over 200 writers and poets. Almost all perished in concentration camps. Among those executed were 26 of the most prominent writers. who have been described as "the cream of secular Yiddish culture." Soon thereafter. in 1953. Stalin unveiled the "Doctors Plot" which set off a program of mass deportation to Siberia of Soviet Jews. Yet Stalins demise did not herald an end to Soviet antiSemitism. It merely transformed its character.
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The Jew was singled out and stigmatized as an alien, a stranger with no attachment to his native land.