Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee - List of Notable JAC Members

List of Notable JAC Members

The size of JAC fluctuated with time. According to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (200 Years Together), it grew to have about 70 members.

  • Solomon Mikhoels (Chairman), the actor-director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater
  • Solomon Lozovsky (Secretary), a former Soviet vice-minister of Foreign Affairs and the head of the Soviet Information Bureau
  • Shakne Epshtein (Secretary and editor of the Eynikeyt newspaper)
  • Itzik Feffer, a poet
  • Ilya Ehrenburg, a writer
  • Solomon Bregman, a deputy minister of State Control
  • Aaron Katz, a General of the Stalin Military Academy
  • Boris Shimeliovich, the Chief Surgeon of the Red Army and director of Botkin Hospital
  • Joseph Yuzefovich, a historian
  • Leib Kvitko, a poet
  • Peretz Markish, a poet
  • Isaak Nusinov, a linguist and literature critic
  • David Bergelson, a writer
  • David Hofstein, a poet
  • Benjamin Zuskin, an actor
  • Ilya Vatenberg, an editor
  • Shlomo Shleifer, Chief Rabbi of Moscow
  • Emilia Teumin, an editor
  • Leon Talmy, a journalist, translator
  • Khayke Vatenberg-Ostrowskaya, a translator
  • Lina Stern, a scientist
  • Israel Fisanovich, submarine commander, Hero of the Soviet Union

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