The Moscow-published Yiddish monthly, “Sovietisch Heimland” has labeled American Jewry’s concern with the conditions of Jews in other lands as an “attempt to divert the attention of the Jewish public from the ills of American society and its treatment of the Jews.” This interpretation was contained in an editorial in the December, 1967 edition of the magazine, copies of which reached here today.
The reference was made in a comment on the 41st annual conference of Yivo Institute for Jewish Research in New York, where a paper on “The Struggle of American Jews for the Rights of Other Jews” was presented. “This was an historical survey, but such a title gives the impression that there is a need to fight for the rights of Jews everywhere except in the United States,” the magazine said. The balance of the issue was devoted to a series of articles on the 50th anniversary of the death of Mendele Mocher Sforim, the Russian-born author and essayist who is regarded as the father of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature.
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