STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Solzhenitsyn book on Russian-Jewish relations out this week MOSCOW, June 18 (AFP) - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize-winning author, is to publish a two-volume exhaustively researched study of Russia's troubled relations with its Jewish minority, his publisher announced Monday. The first volume of "Two hundred years together, 1795-1995" will go on sale Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the publishing house Russki Put (Russian Way) told AFP, though she refused to provide details about the print run or say when the second volume would appear. Solzhenitsyn, now 82 and considered by some the guardian of Russia's moral conscience, has worked on the project for 10 years, the editor of the weekly Moskovsky Novosty, Viktor Loshak, told the Interfax news agency. Basing his remarks on an interview with Solzhenitsyn to appear in the weekly Tuesday, Loshak said the book would put the lie to allegations that the writer was in any way anti-Semitic. A vocal defender of what he sees as Russian national values, Solzhenitsyn's worldwide reputation is based on his writings on life under the Soviet regime, though he was later seen as an advocate of pan-Slav Russian Orthodoxy. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres announced that Solzhenitsyn was preparing to publish a book about the Jews after he visited the writer last month. "I was pleasantly surprised to learn he was writing a book about the relations between Jews and Russians," he said. Russian anti-Semitism was particularly virulent in the late 19th century and early 20th century when a forged document written by Russians called "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", purportedly a Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world, gained widespread currency. The word "pogrom," of Russian origin and originally meaning "riot", was transposed into English and other languages around this time to denote attacks on Jews. Anti-Semitism was also current among Russian adversaries of communism who noted that many Bolshevik leaders were of Jewish origin, and anti-Semitism is a common feature among the right-wing nationalist groups which have emerged since the collapse of communism in 1991. Miroslav Antic, http://www.antic.org/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
