Inaugural Issue of Soviet Homeland

Aron Vergelis

1961

Dear Reader!

We are placing in your hands this first number of Sovetish heymland [Soviet Homeland]. In it you will feel the breath of our times. You will receive news of literary life and hear the multinational voice of the literature of the Soviet Union. As part of that literature, we believe that our journal will honor the name which stands on…

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Creator Bio

Aron Vergelis

1918–1999

Aron Vergelis was born in Lyubar, Zhitomyr (Ukraine). He started writing in the early 1930s, shortly after moving to Birobidzhan, the Jewish Autonomous area. After studying in Moscow and serving in the Red Army during World War II, Vergelis became a major force in Soviet Yiddish culture: hosting Yiddish radio, publishing poetry, editing journals, and translating Yiddish works into Russian. He was the editor in chief of the Moscow-based Yiddish literary monthly Sovetish heymland (Soviet Homeland) from 1961 to 1991, and of its post-Soviet sequel, Di yidishe gas.

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