Missing Kiev Statue Touches Off Frenzy From: Forward | Date: May 20, 2005| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Siegel, Jennifer
Forward
05-20-2005
His name may double as a greeting of "hello," but a recent statue of Sholom
Aleichem went missing before anyone could say goodbye.

A bronze statue of the author disappeared from a central square in Kiev
several weeks ago, touching off an international frenzy -- fueled by
speculation on the Internet -- about its whereabouts. Although witnesses
saw several men remove the statue with a crane, its location has been under
dispute. A Russian-American newspaper, Novoe Ruskoye Slovo, blamed "unknown
vandals." Several Web sites said the statue was hacked into pieces and ...

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