July/August 2002

Volume XXXXVIII No. 5

2 “Seven-fold Betrayal”: The Murder of Soviet Yiddish • Joseph Sherman 9 A Portrait of Itsik Fefer • Joshua Rubenstein 11 Defendants in the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee Trial: • List compiled by May 8—July 18, 1952 Joshua Rubenstein topic 12 Hebrew vs. Yiddish—The Worldwide Rivalry • Norman Berdichevsky 18 The Melody Lingers: The Yiddish Speech of Ashkenazic Jews • Zelda Kahan Newman arts and letters 22 Two Yiddish Playwrights • Nahma Sandrow 24 Tragic Magic—Sholem Aleichem, American • Oscar Kraines 30 It Is Not A Joke... • Leo M. Abrami memoir 35 A Tower of Babel • Jacob Spivack literary essay 37 A Note on Dovid Bergelson’s “Obsolescence” • Joseph Sherman fiction 39 Obsolescence • Dovid Bergelson 43 Nokh Hekher (Even Higher) • Yehudit Freund poetry 8 August 12, 1952 • Charles Fishman 17 Yiddish • I. Century yiddish poetry in translation 46 At Peretz’s Tomb • Rivke Basman Ben Chaim 46 The Gift • Rivke Basman Ben Chaim 46 My Shadow • Peretz Miransky 46 A String • Peretz Miransky 47 Old Age Home (New York Elegy) • Arn (Aharon) Zeitlin 47 From: “Echo to ‘Night-Time in the Old Marketplace’” • Arn (Aharon) Zeitlin 47 My Teeth • Chaya Fedler