The second anniversary of “Sovietisch Heimland,” the bimonthly Yiddish periodical published in Moscow, was celebrated in the Soviet capital this weekend with an evening of readings and discussion, in the Yiddish language, attended by about 700 persons, press dispatches from Moscow reported today.
Aaron L. Vergelis, editor of the periodical, told the meeting that government permission has been obtained for increasing the magazine’s circulation, now limited to 25,000 copies. There are about 800 subscribers in the Moscow area, it was revealed. Mr. Vergelis announced also that some books in Yiddish will soon be published. There have been no Yiddish books issued in the USSR for several years.
The meeting, held in the auditorium of the Moscow Writers Club, was attended by subscribers who had been invited by mail. There had been no prior announcement of the meeting in the Soviet press or on city billboards in Moscow.
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