Rootless cosmopolitan
Soviet epithet used against Jewish intellectuals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rootless cosmopolitan (Russian: безродный космополит, romanized: bezrodnyi kosmopolit) was a pejorative Soviet epithet which referred mostly to Jewish intellectuals as an accusation of their lack of allegiance to the Soviet Union, especially during the antisemitic campaign of 1948–1953.[1] This campaign had its roots in Joseph Stalin's 1946 attack on writers who were connected with "bourgeois Western influences", culminating in the "exposure" of the non-existent Doctors' Plot in 1953.[2][3][4]
The term is considered to be an antisemitic trope.[5][6][7]