Wiesel on Stalin the Jew hater

Holocaust winner Elie Wiesel claimed in his 1978 book A Jew Today:

[W]e know very well that Stalin nurtured an almost pathological hatred for Jews—and Judaism.

Stalin & the Jew Lazar Kaganovich (left)

In 1931 Stalin wrote a letter to an American Jewish Agency, which

was also published in 1936 in Pravda, the official newspaper of the

communist party. Stalin stated of antisemitism and antisemities

In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.

Simon Sebag Montefiore, a British biographer of Stalin, and who is himself

Jewish, wrote in his 2003 book Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar:

"Stalin was surrounded by Jewesses — from Polina Molotova and Maria Svanidze to Poskrebysheva and Yezhova. Beria's son, reliable on gossip, dubious on politics, recalled that his father gleefully listed Stalin's affairs with Jewesses."

Professor Albert Lindemann, who has written extensively on anti-Semitism, wrote

in his 1997 book Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews:

Determining Stalin's real attitude to Jews is difficult. Not only did he repeatedly speak out against anti-Semitism but both his son and daughter married Jews, and several of his closest and most devoted lieutenants from the late 1920s through the 1930s were of Jewish origin, for example Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, Maxim Litvinov, and the notorious head of the secret police, Genrikh Yagoda. There were not so many Jews allied with Stalin on the party's right as there were allied with Trotsky on the left, but the importance of men like Kaganovich, Litvinov, and Yagoda makes it hard to believe that Stalin harbored a categorical hatred of all Jews, as a race, in the way that Hitler did.

Stalin's third wife, a Jew?

Modern biographers of Stalin can't even agree as to whether Rosa Kaganovich

even existed, but the Soviet Union specialized in making people disappear.

Pulizter Prize winning contemporaries, and even old Bolshevik comrades
of Stalin, claim that she did exist and she was married to Stalin.

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