Rosenberg case

1. A court case involving Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union. Some have argued that the Rosenbergs were innocent victims of McCarthy-era hysteria against communists or of anti-Semitism (they were Jewish). Others contend that they were indeed Soviet spies.

Example Sentences

Anita Isaacs, a Guatemala expert at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, said that in retrospect, the Rosenberg case demonstrated the power of interests aligned against any effort to end the privileges of Guatemala’s white ruling classes.

From New York Times

The full texts of both versions are reprinted in “Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case,” by Walter Schneir, with a preface and afterword written by me.

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In left and liberal circles, how one stood on the Rosenberg case became not just a proxy for one’s views on Communism and the Soviet Union but also, like the Dreyfus case in France a half-century earlier, instantly defined who one was.

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A memo recounting an “often-hostile, sometimes-shouting” appearance he made on a radio show in 1975 to debate the merits of the Rosenberg case notes his involvement in “two pending cases.”

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Blum’s book is especially valuable in rebutting the dwindling few who still believe the Rosenberg case was about the government seeking to curb the civil liberties of dissenters.

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