The remains of the famed Yiddish author, Mendele Mocher Sforim (1835-1917), have been transferred by Soviet authorities to a Christian cemetery in his home town in Odessa, the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry reports Originally located in the Old Jewish Cemetery of Odessa, his gravestone is now flanked by Christian crosses atop Christian gravestones. This is yet another violation of the cultural provisions of the Helsinki accords, the GNYCSJ states.
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