The Appeal of the Soviet Union for Yiddish Writers in the 1920s

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Professor Samuel Kassow explains why the Soviet Union encouraged Yiddish as a language and literature during the 1920s. Many Yiddish writers moved to the Soviet Union in the 1920s as it seemed like "the only place in the world where the state was not just tolerating but encouraging the Yiddish language."

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