Two Jewish Literary Works Published in Soviet Union, Lithuania

Two Jewish literary works have appeared within the boundaries of the Soviet Union and its Lithuanian Republic, it was reported here today. A volume of poems by the Russian-Yiddish poet Isaac Borisov has appeared in Moscow in Russian translation for the first time. Borisov, a World War II hero, is famous for his war poems which are permeated with Russian patriotism and hatred of the Germans. A work on the Yiddish language in Lithuanian has just been published in Vilna. The author, Chaim Lemchem, an expert on the Lithuanian and Yiddish languages, wrote the volume before the war but it never appeared before. One thousand copies have been published in Vilna There is no Yiddish translation.