Perets Markish

A bricklayer of Jewish ancestry leaves capitalist America during the Depression for the promise of Soviet Russia.

In 1941, a group of the Soviet Union's most prominent Jewish writers and artists, including Solomon Mikhoels, Peretz Markish, and Sergei Eisenstein, signed an appeal to Jews throughout the world, asking them to join the Soviet people in fighting against fascism.

On August 24, 1941, a meeting of “representatives of the Jewish people” was convened.