The current issue of the Soviet journal “Literaturnaya Gazeta,” which reached here today, indicates that Peretz Markish, famous Yiddish poet and playwright who was among the Jewish writers who “disappeared” from Moscow since 1948, has died. The time and place of his death were not given He was born in 1895 in the Ukraine.
The Soviet publication reports that a special commission has been formed by the Union of Soviet Writers in Moscow to deal with “the literary estate” left by Markish. The commission will prepare a Russian translation of Markish’s works to be published in a special edition. P. Chagin is named as chairman of the commission. Markish “disappeared” from Moscow some eight years ago together with other prominent Jewish writers, when the process of liquidating Jewish culture started in the USSR.
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