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Soviet Writer Openly Demands That More Yiddish Books Be Published

January 30, 1967
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For the first time in recent years, a Soviet Ukrainian writer publicly called for the publication of books in the Yiddish language, it was revealed in the latest issue of the Digest of the Soviet Press, published here in English.

The publication contained excerpts of a speech by Yuri Smolich, a Ukrainian author, who denounced the failure to print books by authors writing in Yiddish and other languages of Soviet Ukrainia. He compared the present lack with the situation before World War II, when the Ukraine had a special publication house for issuing books in languages of minorities

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