Soviet authorities and prominent Soviet writers participated in a series of special honors commemorating the 70th anniversary of the birth of the late Peretz Markish, one of the USSR’s leading Yiddish writers, who was executed during the Stalin purge of Jewish intellectuals begun by the late dictator in 1948, according to information received here today from Moscow.
The anniversary of the famous Yiddish poet was celebrated in his home town, Polonye, Volyhn, where a street was named in honor of Markish. At the same time, a Markish memorial meeting was held in the Moscow House of Writers, where addresses on the significance of Markish’s works were delivered by Ilya Ehrenburg and Alexi Surkow. The proceedings of the memorial meeting were broadcast by Radio Moscow.
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