Every leading publication in the Soviet Union, including Communist Party, governmental and mass-circulation newspapers and periodicals, has been featuring materials landing Sholem Aleichem as part of the observance of the hundredth anniversary of Sholem Aleichem’s birth.
Copies of Soviet newspapers and magazines received here today show laudatory articles in Pravda, Izvestia, Literaturnaya Gazeta, Sovietskoye Iskustvo, and Ogonok. The letter is a weekly having the largest circulation of any periodical in the U. S. S. R., considered by foreigners in Russia as the Russian equivalent of America’s “Life” Magazine.
The Moscow radio reported today that four well-known Soviet artists–Aleksandrovich, Gorovoy, Kaminskaya and Valter–left Moscow for Paris this week to participate in a Sholem Aleichem anniversary celebration in the French capital, under the auspices of an organization of Jewish Communists.
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