A new Yiddish magazine will soon be published in the Soviet Union, it was reported here today from Moscow. The publication, to be known as “Soviet Homeland, ” will feature both art and articles. Aaron Wergelis, a Yiddish writer, will be editor of the magazine, which is expected to reach a circulation of 25, 000, according to the report.
The new periodical will be the first Yiddish paper to be published in the Soviet Union since the late 1940’s, when the Stalin regime banned Yiddish papers and the Yiddish theater was closed.
It was also reported here from Moscow that Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet Jewish writer, for the first time indicated publicly that Sip Mandelstam, the Russian Jewish poet who disappeared during the Soviet purges in the 1930’s, was actually banished to Siberia, where he died in a concentration camp for political prisoners.
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