The 87th anniversary of the birth of Sholem Aliechem, world famous Yiddish humorist, was widely observed in the Ukraine, which was his birthplace, according to a report today by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee here.
The Committee says that several radio broadcasts in the Ukrainian language were arranged, with leading actors reading excerpts from his works. A special program was prepared for senior students in secondary schools.
According to a survey by the All-Union Book Chamber, 3,263,000 copies of Sholem Aliechem works were published in the USSR between 1935 and 1945. About half of these were in Yiddish, while the others were in Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Azerbaijanian, Armenian, Jewish-Tadjik, Polish, Bulgarian, Moldavian and German.
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