Talk:Yiddish
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[edit]- Russia has always been an important center for Yiddish poetry, both before the purges (Peretz Markish, Leyb Kvitko, and Itzik Fefer were among the important poets liquidated by Stalin) and after.
- Ruth Whitman and Robert Szulkin Introduction to An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Poetry
- I totally should put it in the Russian version. Stalin's after-WW2 purges were not as massive as those before the war, but still very damaging. Can you give a more extended quote though? --Tar-ba-gan (talk) 07:02, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
- Ruth Whitman and Robert Szulkin Introduction to An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Poetry