The court of appeals annulled the sentence of the lower court imposed upon Beinush Silberstein, a young Yiddish poet, to two months imprisonment for the publication of a poem adjudged to be disloyal to the state. The poem was entitled “A Hymn to the Redeemed Earth.”
The court of appeals acted on the basis of the amnesty decree.
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