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Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (Russian: Илья́ Григо́рьевич Эренбу́рг, pronounced [ɪˈlʲja ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲjɪvɪtɕ ɪrʲɪnˈburk] ⓘ; January 26 [ O.S. January 14] 1891 – August 31, 1967) was a Soviet writer, revolutionary, journalist and historian. Ehrenburg was among the most prolific and notable authors of the ...
- Julio Jurenito, The Thaw
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (born Jan. 15 [Jan. 27, New Style], 1891, Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died Aug. 31, 1967, Moscow) was a prolific writer and journalist, one of the most effective Soviet spokesmen to the Western world.
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May 14, 2018 · The Soviet author Ilya Grigorievich Ehrenburg (1891-1967) is best known for his role as a man of letters throughout the first 50 years of Soviet history. He wrote more than 100 books and pamphlets, which range from lyric verse, to fiction, to journalism.
Contents. (1891–1967), writer, journalist, and poet. Ilya Ehrenburg was born in Kiev. In 1895, his family was permitted to move to Moscow, where his father managed a brewery. Inspired by his older high school comrade Nikolai Bukharin, Ehrenburg was drawn as a teenager to the Bolshevik underground.
- Knew everyone from Picasso to Einstein. Ilya Ehrenburg lived from 1891 to 1967; the list of his acquaintances seems endless and includes almost every celebrity of the 20th century.
- Made mind-blowing predictions. “There soon will be the solemn elimination of the Jewish people in Budapest, Kiev, Algiers, and many other places… The process will include burning and burying the Jews alive, spraying the fields with Jewish blood, and many more.”
- He was the master of compromise. At first skeptical of the revolution, Ehrenburg later joined the communist ranks and had to combine his admiration for art, freedom, the Western lifestyle (he adored Paris where he spent his youth, calling it “the school of life”), and loyalty to Moscow.
- Fought Germany with true hatred. As a communist and Soviet Jew, Ehrenburg hated the Nazis’ guts and when the Great Patriotic War broke out he devoted himself stoking the Red Army’s spirits.
The Black Book of Soviet Jewry or simply The Black Book (Russian: Чёрная Кни́га, tr. Chyórnaya Kníga, IPA: [ˈt͡ɕɵrnəjə ˈknʲiɡə]; Yiddish: דאָס שוואַרצע בוך, Dos shvartse bukh), also known as The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry, is a 500-page document compiled for publication by Ilya Ehrenburg and ...
Close. Ehrenburg was among the most prolific and notable authors of the Soviet Union; he published around one hundred titles. He became known first and foremost as a novelist and a journalist – in particular, as a reporter in three wars ( First World War, Spanish Civil War and the Second World War ).
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