Slain
Yiddish
writers’
lives, works
to be
recalled

in Aug. 11 program

On Aug. 12, 1952, the Soviet regime of Joseph Stalin executed 14 prominent Yiddish writers in an attempt to wipe out Jewish culture.

It was the last wave of executions before Stalin’s death the following year, sending a strong statement of anti-Semitism that poisoned life for Jews in the USSR and the Eastern bloc countries for decades to come.

A coalition of secular Jewish organizations in the Los Angeles area will commemorate these events with a program at 2 p.m. Sun., Aug. 11 at the Workmen’s Circle, 1525 S. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles.

The 50th anniversary program will include poetry in Yiddish and English by the murdered poets, testimonies of the accused, and songs set to texts by Soviet Yiddish writers performed by the Lomir Ale Zingen Chorus of the Workmen’s Circle.

Admission is free and open to the public.

For further information, please call (310) 552-2007.