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To his credit, - During the anti-Semitic campaign Jewish leaders say, such views did not unleashed by Stalin after World War II, preclude a deep devotion to the Jewish "my name was often mentioned in the people. newspapers among other prominent Ginzburg never shunned his Jewish `cosmopolitans,'" Ginzburg said, background, even though in recent employing a Soviet propaganda years he has become especially word used to denounce Jews and active in his atheism, publishing others accused as "agents of several articles on the subject. imperialism and Zionism." Ginzburg doesn't like to com- Ginzburg said he narrowly promise when it comes to athe- escaped arrest, and his academic ism, Satanovsky said. career suffered for a while. Satanovsky recalled that when Despite the anti-Semitism he the RJC board voted last year Ginzburg experienced then, Ginzburg is on a statement of solidarity with amonc, b a handful of older academics Israel, Ginzburg argued strenuously who have been involved in rebuilding against a line in which Jewish leaders Russian Jewish life since the collapse of offered a prayer for the well-being of communism. the Jewish state. Ginzburg, 87, has been a member of Challenged Solzhenitsyn the board of directors of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) since the organ- Ginzburg is co-chairman of the Society ization was started in 1996. He's the for Solidarity With the People of Israel, oldest member of the group's Public a pro-Israel advocacy group of Russian Advisory Council, which is made up of Jews created in 2002 to enlist Russian prominent figures in arts, science and public support for Israel. sports. Last year, Ginzburg got involved in a The scientist is well known for his heated argument with another Nobel passionate stand against anti-Semitism Prize winner, Russian author Alexander and his support of secular Jewish iden- Solzhenitsyn, after Solzhenitsyn pub- tity and the State of Israel. RJC leaders lished a book devoted to Russian described Ginzburg as one of the most Jewish history. Many in the Jewish active and passionate men among the community found the book, Two group's lay leadership. Hundred Years Together, to be biased "He is one of those Jewish leaders against Jews. who is extremely active in propagating Ginzburg raised the issue at an RJC the idea of a secular Jewry," said Yevge- board meetings, Satanovsky said, and ny Satanovsky, the RJC's president. later persuaded the group to allocate Ginzburg was given the prize "for funds toward the publication of a book pioneering contributions to the theory challenging anti-Jewish statements in of superconductors and superfluids," Solzhenitsyn's writings. according to a release by the Nobel In a telephone interview hours after Prize committee. He will share the his share of the $1.3 million prize was prize with another Russian scientist, announced, Ginzburg said he would Alexei Abrikosov, now working in the give the money to his young great- United States, and a British-born grandsons. American researcher, Anthony Leggett. 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