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Acknowledgments I take this opportunity to thank all those who helped me in one way or another in writing this work, including the Yiddish writers Hirsh Dobin z"l and Maks Riant from Bnei-'Ayish, as well as Mairum Arones from Bnei-Brak, son of the actor Faivish Arones; the "Habima" actor Israel Beker z"l; Raia Kulbak from Tel Aviv, daughter of the writer Moishe Kulbak; Esther Markish from Or Yehuda, widow of the writer Perets Markish; Edward Melamed from Ganei-Aviv, son of the BirGOSET actress Nekhama Khait; Sofia StrashnaiaMiller from Karmiel, daughter of the writer Buzi Miller, and her brother Mark Miller z"l; Aron Rabinkov from Rehovot, son of the writer Heshl Rabinkov; and Dora Urina-Skalnik from Beer-Sheva, daughter of the BirGOSET worker VoH Skalnik. I thank kindly the Abraham I. Lerner Fund for the Development and Dissemination of Yiddish Language and Culture in Israel, and its president, Ophra Alyagon; the Scholarship Fund of the "Dubek" Company of Israel and its late president, Avraham Melamed z"l; Elena Beliaeva from Santiago (Chile), former senior lecturer at the Birobidzhan Pedagogical Institute; Grigory Pasechnik of Tel Aviv University's Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center; Tatiana Doorn-Moiseenko, projects director at IDC Publishers in Leiden (Holland); Leonid Shkolnik from Jerusalem, former editor-in-chief of Birobidzhal1er shtern and the Russian Forverts; Elena Troian of the State Regional Museum for the Study of Local History and Lore in Birobidzhan; my friends Prof. Avraham Greenbaum z"l of the Hebrew University's Dinur Institute of Jewish History and the English translator Dr. I. Michael Aronson from Ra'anana; my relatives, and others close to me. ...

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