Ilya Ehrenburg, famous Soviet writer, a Jew, was challenged by the Society of Jewish Writers here today to reveal “what has happened to the well known Yiddish writers in Russia who have been silenced for the last five years. ” Ehrenburg, who visited Chile to present the “Stalin Peace Prize” to poet Pablo Neruda, is here now on his way home.
In the open letter, published in the press, the Jewish Writers addressed Ehrenburg as “an intellectual representative of the Soviet Union, and as a Jew,” pointing out to him that “you are now enjoying all the privileges and freedoms offered among genuinely democratic peoples. ” They wanted Ehrenburg to tell the whereabouts and the fate of the famous Yiddish writers in the Soviet Union who have disappeared.
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