ABSTRACT
In several Western countries such as the United States, Canada, France, Argentina and Israel, Yiddish communist periodicals boasted a readership of many thousands. One of the most important among them was the New York-based communist daily Morgn-frayhayt, which agitated, inter alia, on behalf of Soviet interests as they related to the Jews. Yiddishism, of the celebration of Yiddish as the spirit of secular Jewish culture, was the elixir that facilitated the Jewish activists' trans-mogrification from one kind of radicalism into another. Morgn-frayhayt cultivated in its readers aversion to American politics and culture and promoted an outlook which combined pro-Sovietism with adherence to Yiddish culture and language. Towards the end of 1956, Morgn-frayhayt published a number of articles written by Joseph Baruch Salsberg, a leading figure in the Canadian Labor-Progressive Party and a former member of the Ontario Legislature, who made known some results of his recent mission to Moscow.
