A Russian literary critic was sharply attacked today by the Literary Gazette for linking the Soviet revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky with Chaim Nachman Bialik, poet of the Hebrew renaissance, who was described by the magazine as a Jewish mystic poet and a reactionary.”
The critic, B. Bialik, was castigated by the Soviet Journal for asserting that Meyakovsky’s hatred toward hangmen” purportedly was inspired by the works of Chaim Hachman Bialik, “Such an absurd parallel,” the Gazette continued, “is explainable only as lordly snobbery toward Russian Soviet art and disrespect to the memory of the great patriot, Vladimir Mayakovsky,”
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