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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (1121)	7/27/2002 6:43:02 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 3959

The reader should remember that these are TOP leaders under Stalin>>>> Top Leaders? Filmakers? bh.org.il Born in Dvinsk (Daugavpils), Latvia, he received a traditional Jewish education. At the age of nine he wrote and produced a Yiddish play. In 1905 his father went bankrupt and the family moved to Riga, Latvia, and in 1915 he began to study law in St. Petersburg, Russia, but gave this up in 1918 to join Alexander Granovsky's Jewish drama studio. In 1920 the studio moved to Moscow, Russia, where Granovsky and Mikhoels set up the State Jewish Theater. He was its chief actor and in 1928, its director. His outstanding roles included Tevye the Milkman and King Lear. In 1942 Mikhoels was appointed chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee which appealed for Jewish support from abroad for the Soviet struggle against the Germans. He himself visited England, North America and Mexico to reinforce the appeals. At the end of World War II he became the spokesman for Russian Jews returning from their wartime refuge in Soviet Asia. Stalin, who had relented during the war on his disapproval on contacts between Russian Jews and those in other countries, now altered his policies and started a campaign of killing Jewish leaders. Mikhoels was the first to die; he was killed in a car crash in Minsk, later known to have been maneuvered by the Soviet secret police.