An outstanding political cartoonist, Boris Yefimov epitomised a complete and long chapter in Soviet and Russian-Jewish history, writes Ze'ev Ben Shlomo.
Born Boris Fridland, he changed his surname because of antisemitism. His father was a poor Jewish shoemaker from Bialystok.
His older brother Mikhail changed his surname to Koltsov and became Russia's most celebrated foreign correspondent and a Soviet agent in the Spanish Civil War - until shot on Stalin's orders.
He was immortalised as Karkov, the Soviet agent in Madrid, in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls. Boris meanwhile continued an uneasy and uneven relationship with Stalin.
