Ilya Ehrenburg: Revolutionary, Novelist, Poet, War Correspondent, Propagandist the Extraordinary Epic of a Russian Survivor
Anatol Goldberg; And Additional Material Postscript Introduction Erik De Mauny

Ilya Ehrenburg was born on Jan. 27, 1891, in Kiev. He came from a middle-class Jewish family, and his father worked in a brewery.Ehrenburg was arrested several times in 1907 and 1908 for radical writings, and he was finally exiled in 1908. His exile brought him to Paris in 1909, where he settled down in the emigre artists' colony.
Ehrenburg spent much of World War I working as a correspondent for various Russian newspapers.During the war Ehrenburg was a war correspondent at the front. His anti-communist poem, 'Prayer for Russia', appeared in 1917.
From 1924 until his return to Moscow in 1940, Ehrenburg lived the life of a journalist and free-lance writer throughout Europe.

In 1932 he became a regular correspondent for the Soviet newspaper Izvestia. His duties as journalist took him to Spain in the 1930s, where he wrote about the Spanish Civil War. In 1940 he was again in Paris, then occupied by German troops. Ehrenburg returned to Moscow in 1940 with a worldwide reputation. He worked as a war correspondent for the Soviet newspaper Pravda throughout World War II


* Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg by Joshua Rubenstein

Review author[s]: Ruth Rischin
Russian Review, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Jan., 1998), pp. 120-121