Yiddish and Hebrew writers participating as delegates at the 17th International P.E.N. Congress held here, today introduced a joint resolution asking the Congress “to condemn all forms of anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic propaganda in literature.”
Another resolution urges the representatives of all world literature assembled at the P.E.N. Congress “to fight against the forces of tyranny and for the restoration of the rights of Jewish communities throughout Europe and the rest of the world.” The resolution also expresses the hope that “Jewry will be given the widest possibilities for continuing its constructive work in Palestine.”
The Congress was addressed by Leo Koening in behalf of the Yiddish P.E.N. club and by Dr. S. Rawidowicz in behalf of Hebrew writers. Thirty nations are represented at the Congress by their playwrights, peats, novelists, editors and essayists.
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