Digest, September 1982

Contents: National culture. Jewish literature and art in the cultural life of Leipzig — Seven Jewish songs — "Along the roads of the Patriotic War" — In memory of Ioel Linkovsky — Exhibition of Meer Akselrod — Issues in the ethnographic study of Jews in the USSR — War and the Holocaust. Protocols of extermination — Drawings by children from a concentration camp — Distinctive features. On the rites of the state religion... — "Scheherazade" — Statistics and facts. Communities of the Caribbean Islands — The Jews of Vilnius — The SS in action — A fragment of the "Third Reich" — Historical details. The Jewish historical Institute in Poland — Bundists in Siberia — Clergy Against Pogroms — Three Masters of the "Black Order" — Anniversaries and Dates. Spinoza — Contact. Named After Anne Frank — What Metropolitan Hilarion Meant — Interconnection of Cultures — From Previously Published Material. Simmel's Letters on the Jewish Question