Heimland Urges ‘contemporary’ Jewish Culture for Young Russian Jews

The Russian-Jewish monthly, Sovietish Heimland claimed in its latest edition received here today that the time had come to abandon traditional Jewish plays and songs and stress contemporary themes for the benefit of Soviet Jewish youth. The current edition of the periodical features short stories and poems by Soviet-Jewish writers, most of them published for the first time. It said it favored such subject as “Jewish revolutionaries, Jewish heroes in the struggle against Fascism and the works of contemporary Soviet Jewish writers.”