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WHY THE ROSENBERGS DIED BEFORE NIGHTFALL

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/why_the_rosenbergs_died_before_nightfall_39101106

The fate of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is a tragedy with special poignance for the Jewish reader. The point is made by Emily Arnow-Alman and David Alman in "Exoneration," which became an essential addition to the literature of the Rosenberg case immediately upon publication. Urgent and intimate, meticulously documented and full of intriguing revelations, the book captures all the scandals, contradictions and ironies that haunted the trial, conviction and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The Rosenbergs can be described as iconic in the original sense of the word — they were martyrs to a certain political madness that seized the American democracy during the McCarthy era, and their fate is a caution against the excesses of true belief.

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