Soviet plans for the publication in Moscow of a bimonthly magazine of Yiddish writing to appear soon and a Yiddish newspaper to begin next year, were revealed here today by t he Yiddish daily Day-Morning Journal in a dispatch from Moscow.
The newspaper reported that Yiddish type, heretofore reported by Soviet officials as non-existent in the USSR, except in Biorbidjan, was found in the Moscow printing establishment of Izvestia, the government newspaper. The type is believed to have been used for the Yiddish newspaper Einigkeit which suspended publication in 1948.
The Union of Writers of the USSR will invest some 400,000 rubles ($100,000 at the official rate of exchange) in the magazine, each of whose issues are planned to be about 200 pages. This information was given to Henry Shoskes, a New York Yiddish Journalist who is now visiting Moscow as correspondent of the Day-Morning Journal, by a group of prominent Soviet writers which included Jews and non-Jews. He was also told that a conference of Jewish writers from all over the USSR would be held soon.
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