Representatives of the Jewish Labor Committee accosted members of a visiting group of Soviet journalists in the Metropolitan Museum of Art here today and queried them about the fate of missing Soviet Jewish writers.
Jacob Pat, executive secretary of the JLC, addressing the Soviet journalists in Russian, asked them about the fate of such Jewish writers as Peretz L. Markish, Itzik Pfeffer, David Bergelson and others. N.M. Gribachev, former chairman of the Soviet Writers Union, said that he knew Markish was dead but that he did not know anything about most of the other Jewish writers. His companion, Boris Kampov-Pogevoy, head of the visiting group, said that he was writing a preface for a Russian translation of the work of the Jewish poet L. Kvitko, but admitted under questioning that he was not positive whether Kvitko was still alive.
Asked whether the Soviet journalists would meet with American Jewish writers to discuss the fate of the Soviet Jewish writers, the Russians said they would when they returned to New York after touring the remainder of the United States.
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