Word: heimland
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...were slaughtered. Only a pallid, two-page newspaper published twice a week in remote Birobidzhan on the Manchurian border kept the dim flame from guttering out. Last week that flame got its first fuel in 13 years as 25,000 copies of a new bimonthly Yiddish literary magazine, Sovietish Heimland (Soviet Homeland), came off the presses in Moscow...
...Russia's Jews were really not interested in Jewish culture, but the 1959 Soviet census destroyed his argument. Of 2,268,000 Russian Jews, nearly half a million listed Yiddish as their native tongue. Almost as if he were admitting his error, Khrushchev authorized the publication of Sovietish Heimland...
Natural Atheist. Vergelis was an obvious choice to run Sovietish Heimland...
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