THE DELEGATION

Moscow, 1943. 

The Soviet Army has defeated the Nazis at Stalingrad, but continuing to defend

the Motherland will require arms, money, and allies around the world. To rally support, Joseph

Stalin dispatches a delegation of two Jewish artists, the world-renowned actor (and self-

appointed Head Jew of the Soviet Union) Solomon Mikhoels and his Party handler, the middling poet Lieutenant Colonel Itzik Feffer.

Less than ten years later, they would both be murdered.

Truth and fiction eye each other warily in this true story as told by a fictional author struggling

to pen an epic work of historical fiction.