Word: nachman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said is that much of it sounds as though it had been dictated by the Jewish Daily Forward's Editor Abraham Cahan, Author Singer's first U. S. sponsor and one of the shrillest critics of things Communist. In this story of an underdog, the hero is Nachman Ritter, son of a poor peddler. A Talmud student turned baker, Nachman is bewitched by an egomaniac Communist caricature, endures nine years' incredible persecution for his faith. Escaping to Russia, he is arrested, exploited, tortured, framed, at last bitterly disillusioned. But before
...Nachman is sacrificed to the OGPU, Author Singer has long ago sacrificed him as a plausible character. As the last third of the story turns into out & out melodrama, even anti-Communist readers are likely to feel that literature as well as Nachman has been the victim of a frame...
Died. Chaim Nachman Bialik, 61, Hebrew poet, "Wordsworth of Hebrew literature." critic, journalist, Yiddish-Hebrew translator; of a heart attack following an operation; in Vienna. An English translation of his poems was published...