“Dr. Zhivago,” the novel which earned for the Russian poet Boris Pasternak the Nobel Prize for literature as well as denunciation by the Communist hierarchy, was issued here today in Hebrew translation. Issued in a paperback edition, and popularly priced, the book was put out by the Federation of Labor’s publishing house, “Am Oved,” of which Moshe Sharett, former Prime Minister and ex-Foreign Minister, is now the editor-in-chief. The Hebrew version was translated from the original Russian.
(In London, a meeting in memory of Jewish writers murdered in the Soviet Union was held here last night under the auspices of the Jewish Journalists Association and the World Jewish Congress. Representatives of these organizations as well as other leaders of the Jewish community have attended the commemorative session. Among those in attendance was the widow of the late Sholem Asch.)
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