Friday, September 13, 1968-19
Yiddish Literature Growth in 50 Years THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Told in Book Co-Published by Novosti Some Parts for Israel Army Being Produced Locally

Hebrew Corner

The Struma

In December 1941, the ship Struma

In a Novosti Press Agency re-
sailed from the port of Constanza in
Romania. It was a small cattle boat, lease from Moscow, released to
only 190 tons, very old and dilapidated.
There were 768 Jews on board who The Jewish News by the Soviet
had succeeded in escaping from Romania Embassy in Wasahington, an ac-
before the Germans got there. They
hoped to succeed in reaching Turkey count is given of the role of Yid-
safely, and from there to get to dish literature in Russia in the
Eretz Yisrael.
past 50 years, as part of the liter-
The boat, which successfully traversed
the Black Sea, reached the shores ary accomplishments in the USSR.
of Turkey with great difficulty and
The Novosti r e 1 e a s e, which
entered the harbor of Istanbul to take
on fuel and food and to repair . the claims great progress for Yiddish,
engines which had broken down on is a review by Semyon Rabinovich
the way.
of a new book by Grigori Remenik,
The boat received no help in Istan-
bul. The harbor services declined to Russian literary critc.
provide fuel, and even food and water
"Fifty Years of Creative Writ-
for the passengers were refused.
The owner of the ship informed the ing" is the title of the book being
immigrants that the engine had broken jointly published by Novosti and
down completely and that its repair
would take until the end of January. Yiddish Books of 'Warsaw. In two
It was wartime, and the Germans had supplementing parts, one a his-
great influence in Turkey. Therefore torical review, the other a set of
the Turks stated that not a single per-
son would be allowed to leave the ship. 10 profiles, Remenik writes that
And so the passengers remained on Yiddish literature came into being
board the boat in the harbor for many
long weeks. and the engine was still and developed in intimate contact
not repaired.
I with the over-all life of •the coun-
On the 22nd of February, the im- try . . .
a
telegram
from
migrants received
According to Rabinovich:
Eretz Yisrael which contained the happy
news that the Jewish Agency had
"Before the Rovolution, Reminik
succeeded in obtaining entrance per-
mits for them to Eretz Yisrael. But says, Yiddish literature mostly de-
by the next noon, the happiness had scribed the environment of the
disappeared. Turkish police boats sur-
rounded the small ship and towed the Jewish hamlet in the so-called Pale
Sturma outside the port. They knew of Settlement. Soviet Yiddish liter-
the facts: with a broken engine, the

boat could not sail to Romania or to ature went much further afield,
any other place in the world.
striking firstly into the cities. Most
The boat tossed around all night.
The winds drove it toward the open people in the old Jewish hamlet
sea. But nevertheless the passengers I . ould not break out of penury—as
continued to hope that someone would c
come to their rescue. It was a vain I IS so strikingly reflected in the im-
hope.
Next day people on the Turkish
shore heard a loud explosion. They the Black Sea. Only one man sur-
could see in the distance that the vived.
Since then, the ship Struma has be-
Struma was sinking rapidly.

come a symbol of the struggle of
the Jews who wish to return to their
homeland.
(Translation of Hebrew column, pub-
lished by The Brith Ivrith Olamith,
Jerusalem.)

What caused the mysterious explos-
ion? That we do not know to this
day. It is said that a sea mine struck
the boat; and it is also said that a
German torpedo sank it. The 768
immigrants on the boat drowned in

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tries are producing one-third of all vehicles.
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mortal writings of Mendele Moi-
cher Sforim, Scholom Aleiclem
and Itsak-Leibush Perets. But in
Soviet times, when open to all
Jews were all roads to Life with a
capital L, Yiddish literature came
to be populated with totally differ-
ent characters, those of factory
worker, farmer, schoolmaster, doc-
tor, engineer, scientist, soldier,
statesman and public personality.
"Dwelling on war-time writing,
he emphasises that despite
heavy losses, Yiddish writing
never stopped. Now the all-out
effort for freedom, independence
and victory over Nazi Germany
was the central theme. One book
after another was published de-
scribing Soviet courage at the
fighting fronts and in the rear,
and the tragedies of the ghettoes
and concentration camps and
urging the full dedication of
effort to the struggle against the
enemy .. .
"Remenik says that the appear-
ance of the new literary periodical
`Sovetish Heimland' made for a
new upsurge in the Yiddish writing
fraternity. In six years of activity
the periodical has published up-
wards of 30 novels, some 300 nov-
elettes and short stories, a thou-
sand longer and shorter poems,
dozens of plays and hundreds of
literary and art reviews, sketches,
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