Although Soviet Russia professes to allow all nationalities in the USSR to use their own mother tongue in the press and literature, Jewish writers have been deprived since at least 1948 of the privilege of using Yiddish and Hebrew, and of otherwise fostering a Jewish cultural life in Russia, according to a study issued by the Institute of Jewish Affairs of the World Jewish Congress.
The newly-published appraisal, written by Dr. Wolf Blattberg, discloses that with the discontinuation of the last-remaining Yiddish newspaper in Russia, Einikeit, in 1948, Jewish writers have completely disappeared. No word has reached the outside world of their fate. With these men, the remnants of all existing Jewish cultural life have also vanished from sight.
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