A Moscow Publishing House has just issued “In The Footsteps of Generations,” in its Yiddish original, by Peretz Markish, one of the prominent Jewish writers liquidated in the Stalin era, it was reported here today from Moscow.
The publication was viewed as an implied rehabilitation of Markish by Soviet authorities although the Yiddish poet has never been officially and formally rehabilitated. He has been mourned in speech and print by many Jewish and non-Jewish writers.
“In The Footsteps of Generations” is a 700-page novel in which Markish uses for background the experiences of a colony of Polish-Jewish refugees on Soviet soil and the Warsaw Ghetto. Hersh Remenik has written an epilogue and the jacket for the new edition was designed by Shlomo Telengator, the Soviet-Jewish artist.
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