An historical survey dealing with the Jewish past in a scholarly, non-political context, is featured in the current issue of Sovietish Heimland, the officially sanctioned Yiddish periodical, just received here. The issue also contains articles, essays and poems by Ezra Finenberg, Aron Vergelis, Moto Grubian, Yechiel Falikman, Chaim Matinsky and Meir Yellin. Also featured are hitherto unpublished photographs of the late David Bergelson, a Soviet Jewish novelist who was one of the victims of the Stalinist purges of the early 1950s. There is a note on Boris Gaponov’s Hebrew translation of “Man in the Tiger Skin” by the Georgian poet Rustaveli. The magazine reports that Gaponov is working on a Hebrew translation of Lermontov’s poetry which will appear in two volumes and on an anthology of Georgian poetry.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
