For the Soviet Yiddish Writers Murdered August 12, 1952

An annual memorial remembering the Soviet Yiddish writers and artists murdered on August 12th, 1952. The 2026 event features readings by theater students from the YIVO Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language and Literature: Leyb-Shmuel Balasz, Ester-Brokhe Kruman, Neyakh Mitchell, Tucker Tsilye Smith; as well as sometime faculty members Allen Lewis Rickman, Shane Baker, and Mikhl Yashinsky.