MEMORY OF WAR

Prior to 1961, when the journal Sovetish Heymland began to appear in Moscow, discussions of Holocaust-related writings took place in the pages of Warsaw Yiddish periodicals, the newspaper Folks-Shtime and the journal Yidishe Shriftn. Some Soviet writers attempted to instruct their Polish counterparts how to treat war-related topics. In 1956 Motl Grubyan, a Moscow poet, published in Folks-Shtime a poem in which he persuaded his fellow literati “not to bathe in grief / not to fill the sail with hatred.”¹ In the same year, the Chernivtsi-based poet Hirsh Bloshtein, a frequent contributor to the Folks-Shtime literary section, criticized his Warsaw