Ukrainian police are investigating a case of anti-Semitic vandalism after a monument to a prominent Jewish writer was vandalized with swastikas.
A criminal investigation was opened by police in Kiev after they received a report of unknown individuals defacing the monument in honor of Yiddish author and playwright Sholem Aleichem. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko condemned the act of vandalism on Twitter:"The anti-Semitic act on the Sholem Aleichem monument in Kiev is disgusting, appalling and in need of prompt investigation. The perpetrator must be brought to justice.
Rabbi Moshe Azman, the president of American Friends of Anatevka, a charity that helps Jews forced to flee the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, called the incident"another provocation in front of our synagogue" on his Facebook page.Who is Sholem Aleichem?Born in 1859 in Russia, Sholem Aleichem was a Yiddish author and playwright known in the United States as the"Yiddish Mark Twain," according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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