What Soviet Jews knew about the Holocaust in real time
Conference sessions will focus on the Yiddish writings of such well-known Russian Jewish poets such as David Hofshteyn and Peretz Markish.
Marching towards the War Memorial, Birobidzhan, USSR 1987. The banner, in Yiddish reads: "The People and the Party are United"(photo credit: NORMAN GERSHMAN/COURTESY OF OSTER VISUAL DOCUMENTATION CENTER AT BEIT HATFUTSOT)ByALAN ROSENBAUM