This article appears in our Winter/Spring 2022 issue. Subscribe to receive the latest issue in your mailbox. Print When four leading intellectuals of the progressive, secular Jewish movement published “ The Soviet Jewish Situation: A Declaration ” in the November 1982 issue of Jewish Currents , they spoke as outraged and deeply disillusioned leftists. Morris U. Schappes, the editor of Jewish Currents , Paul Novick and Chaim Suller of the Morning Freiheit , and Itche Goldberg of Yidisher Kultur had all been committed Communists in the 1930s and ’40s and, in some cases, through the ’50s. Now they denounced the...