Bialystoker Stern

... A number of writers who came to Bialystok with the Jewish expatriates from Poland joined the staff of the new Soviet-controlled newspaper, Bialystoker Stern. This paper had an unmistakable Communist orienta- tion, because of its sponsorship and because most of its top staff were Jews from the Soviet Union. Later on, when it became known that the newly arrived Polish Jewish journalists had previously been Zionists and Bundists, they were unceremoniously fired. Jewish actors from Poland fared somewhat better. They ...