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Died. Alexander Kahn, 80, Russian-born general manager of New York's Jewish Daily Forward, the U.S.'s largest (circ. 70,000) foreign language (Yiddish) newspaper, a tireless fighter for the downtrodden, whose fund-raising efforts among New York's wealthy Jewish families won him the title of "the East Side's ambassador to the Uptown Jews"; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...army, and many Russian space scientists are Jews. In recent years Khrushchev's regime has permitted limited publication of works by famed Jewish Writer Sholom Aleichem, allowed Jewish theatrical and variety troupes to be formed. Three months ago, the Kremlin for the first time in years authorized a Yiddish-language magazine (carefully controlled, of course...
Politics of Survival. That the magazine will merely parrot Soviet policy-in Yiddish-seems clear on almost all 130 pages of its first issue. Obscure Yiddish writers are represented, but the magazine's tone is set by excerpts from Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's autobiography, sentimental songs about Cuba and the Congo, and a poem celebrating the wonders of a Siberian hydroelectric project...
Russian Jews view Editor Aron Ver-gelis, a short, stocky man with a shadowy background, with deep distrust. They suspect him of having worked for Stalin's secret police during World War II, and of holding the job of political commissar. One of the few Yiddish writers to escape interrogation, torture, and death during the Stalin purges, Vergelis got right to work at the politics of survival during the thaw that followed Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin. After the Suez invasion, Vergelis dashed off a Yiddish poem furiously attacking Israel. "We will force our enemies to surrender...
...stations. Such a setup seems made to order for huckstering baubles, panaceas-and marked-up thingumabobs that cannot get airspace in the U.S. -and it is. But XERF's prime evening time is given over to what the radio trade calls the schlockm'misier (from schlock, a Yiddish word for junk...