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244: 20:(also known as the World Congress for Jewish Culture or, in Yiddish, der Alveltlekher Yidisher Kultur-kongres) is a secular organization founded in 1948 to promote 301: 55:(The Future, founded in 1892), the world's oldest Yiddish journal still in publication. It has also been an important publisher of Yiddish reference works and 306: 24:
culture throughout the world. Individuals active in the founding of the organization included Yiddish writers and intellectuals such as
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of April 19, 1943 and in memory of the Soviet Yiddish writers murdered on August 12, 1952 (also known as the
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The Congress also conducts yearly memorials in New York City in memory of the
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This article about an organization in the United States is a
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Yiddish
Shmuel Niger
Chaim Grade
Avrom Reyzen
New York City
Buenos Aires
Paris
Die Zukunft
monographs
Jacob Shatzky
Soviet Union
Warsaw ghetto uprising
Night of the Murdered Poets
"Guide to the YIVO Archives"
"Pinkhos Schwartz Is Dead at 61"
"Jacob Shatzky, Historian, Was 61 – Author of Monumental Work on Jews of Warsaw Dies –Editor and Librarian"
"Jews Remember Warsaw Revolt – 18th Anniversary of Ghetto Uprising Against Nazis is Widely Observed"
"Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Honored in Word and Song"
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Non-profit organizations based in New York City
Yiddish culture in the United States
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