22 Friday, April 1, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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London's YKUF Cut Short by War
By HENRY SREBRNIK
Before World War II,
London had a small but
active Yiddish literary
community, and many of its
writers and poets became
involved with the work of
the YKUF, the World
Jewish Cultural Union.
Founded in September
1937 in Paris, the YKUF
brought together prominent
left-wing Jewish intellectu-
als from the United States,
Great Britain, Poland,
France, Canada and 15
other countries. World
famous Yiddish writers and
activists like Zalman
Schneour, Joseph
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Arab Target?
U.S. Rep. Mark Siljander
(R-Mich.) claimed Tuesday
that he wore a bullet-proof
vest at a Washington rally
on Saturday because he was
warned by the Secret Serv-
ice that he was the target of
Arab assassins.
Siljander said he was
scheduled to appear at a
"pro-Jewish" rally across
from the White House.
Siljander is a Christian
minister who was heavily
supported for election by the
Moral Majority.
Secret Service and FBI of-
ficials denied knowledge of
any threat against Siljan-
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soil and make it fertile."
YKUF's major coup was
the inauguration of a course
in Yiddish literature at the
University of London in
1938-1939. The well-known
socialist Zionist Noah
Barou of the Workers' Cir-
cle had called for an under-
taking of this sort four years
earlier. "In such a big Yid-
dish center as London, a
Yiddish People's University
has been long overdue," he
told the members of the Cir-
cle.
A meeting of the YKUF
at Circle House on Oct. 8,
1938, made final ar-
rangements for the course.
The lecturer hired was Prof.
Shloime Birnbaum, the son
of Nathan Birnbaum, a
chief organizer of the 1908
Czernowitz Conference on
Yiddish. Both the fall and
spring sessions were well
received, according to the
secretary of the school, and
it was agreed Professor
Birnbaum would be ap-
pointed to a lectureship in
Yiddish studies, beginning
Oct. 1, 1939.
BONN — Adolph Hitler's
honorary citizenship in the
town of Trier was formally
revoked late last month.
Mayor Felix Zimmer-
mann said Trier had consid-
ered Hitler's citizenship re-
voked at the end of World
War II, but had never taken
official action to strike the
dictator's name from the
municipal record of honor.
However, the war inter-
vened and the whole exper-
iment came to an end; the
course was never again of-
fered. The YKUF itself was
also hard hit by the devasta-
tion caused by Hitler's blitz
in the .Jewish east end of
London, and was never re-
vived in any meaningful
way after the war.
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Opatoshu, H. Leivick and
Gina Medem were involved;
the writer Dr. Chaim Sloves
of Paris was elected the first
secretary of the world body.
A branch of the YKUF
was organized in London,
with I. A. Lisky as the secre-
tary, the Hebrew poet
Moshe Oved as treasurer,
and Morris Myer, editor of
the Yiddish daily Di Tsayt,
as chairman.
Anglo-Jewish circles
outside the Yiddishist left
did not let the YKUF have
an easy time of it. The
London Jewish
Chronicle denounced the
Paris conference as a
ploy by those who had
previously been "foes of
Jewish tradition."
The YKUF nonetheless
persevered. Leivick, Opa-
toshu and Schneour were
all brought to London as lec-
turers and meetings were
called with the east London
trade union branches and
the Workers Circle in order
to promote Yiddish culture.
Said Lisky at the time, "We
want to plow up the sandy
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