Sholem Asch, noted Jewish writer, today announced that he has severed his connections with the Daily Freiheit, a Yiddish Communist daily newspaper published in New York, and with Yikuf, a Jewish cultural organization.
Mr. Asch also revealed that he has withdrawn from Yikuf the right to publish his works in Yiddish and to disseminate them. The action, he said, was taken by him in protest against the Yikuf’s policy “not only to remain silent over the pogrom made in Soviet Russia” over Jewish books and Jewish culture, but even “to punish with suppression those who dared to voice their protest against this injustice.” The Yikuf has published two of Mr. Asch’s volumes during the last four years.
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