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Friday, April 8, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
ZOA Convention
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Chicago Author Writes for Soviet Yiddish Journal
' By JAMES RICE
NEW YORK — Harry
Hurwitz, Minister of Infor- • CHICAGO (JTA),— Mor-
mation at the Israeli Em- ris Ghitzis,
88-year-old
bassy in Washington, will former pharmacist in
be the featured speaker at a Chicago, finds a certain
luncheon during the 83rd irony in his life these days.
national convention of the He has been writing for
Zionist Organization of American Yiddish publica-
America April 29.
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are no longer any Yiddish
schools or publications.
The only place his articles
and - books are being pub-
lished now is in the Soviet
Union. Three years ago he
became a featured writer in
Sovietish Heimland, the
government-sponsored
Yiddish magazine.
Ghitzis mused about this
in a recent interview with
the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency shortly after the
New York Times published
an article dealing with new
support for Yiddish in the
Soviet Union. The articles
referred to a book by Ghitzis
to be published as a special
supplement in Sovietish
Heimlarid. The Times de-
scribed this as "an unusual
case of a book by an Ameri-
can Yiddish writer being
published."
Ghitzis pointed out to
the JTA that this was not
"unusual," since
Sovietish Heimland has
been publishing his
works for the past three
years. In--1980, Aaron
Vergelis, editor of Heim-
land, visited Chicago on a
trip to the U.S. and in-
vited Ghitzis to write for
the publication. Ghitzis
said he is regularly and
well-compensated for his
work.
The book by Ghitzis that
45 to appear as a special -sup- .
plement in Heimland's May
edition is entitled "Mensch
zu Mensch," which Ghitzis
translated as "From One
Human Being to Another."
He would not describe the
story in detail, but said it
was a romantic tale about a
wealthy old man .and a
beautiful young woman.
Ghitzis and his wife of
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brother in New York and
sisters in Israel and Peru.
His parents, who remained
in the Soviet Union, died in
a Nazi concentration camp
in Transnistria.
Ghitzis was born in Rus-
sia where he became a
pharmacist, practicing
three years in Donbas, a
steel center, where he
"learned much about the
life of the proletariat." He
also is a talented amateur
painter. The walls of the
Ghitzis' modest apartment
are covered with his paint-
ings.
A friendly man, whose
alert manner and vigor
belie his age, Ghitzis has
also produced a film, "Yid-
dish Poets and Writers in
America," which is in the
archives of YIVO and the
National Center for Jewish
Film, formerly associated
with the American Jewish
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