ABSTRACT
Hundreds of Morgn-Frayhayt readers formed the most numerous contingent of the Moscow journal's subscribers in the United States. While the American Jewry became increasingly pro-Israel and anti-Soviet, the Morgn-Frayhayt circle survived as the last stronghold of Yiddish-speaking enthusiasts of the Soviet Union. Yiddish Communism always was a rather fragile construction, based on little compatible postulates of Jewish particularism and proletarian internationalism. Beside the metropolitan and provincial highbrows, many of the subscribers preferred Yiddish belles-lettres to informative materials. For these readers, Sovetish Heymland was usually the only serious Yiddish publication they could obtain. The group of young Yiddish literati brought into being by Sovetish Heymland, differed fundamentally from the Young Israel writers and their kind, and not only because it appeared under a different ideological lodestar. In July 1986, Sovetish Heymland began to issue annual special editions, consisting mainly of work by Yiddish authors of the post-war generations.
