The Communist-dominated “World Peace Movement” announced here today that, as part of its international cultural program, it will celebrate next year the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sholem Aleichem. Moscow has already fixed the policy on this point for all Communist organizations by announcing several months ago that it would publish an edition of Sholem Aleichem’s collected works in 1959. However, the publication in the USSR will be in Russian–not in Yiddish.
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