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Ilya Ehrenburg

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Ilya Ehrenburg · Arts & Literature

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1891, Kiev, Russian Empire (now Kyiv, Ukraine) — 1967, Moscow, Soviet Union

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Russia/Soviet Union · France

Biography

Ilya Ehrenburg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Author

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Prolific Soviet writer and journalist. His wartime dispatches galvanized the Red Army, and with Vasily Grossman he compiled 'The Black Book,' documenting Nazi crimes against Soviet Jews; his 1954 novel 'The Thaw' named a whole era of Soviet cultural relaxation. Born to a Jewish family in Kiev, he was Jewish.

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