 Complete the following phrase:  The organizing meeting was an international congress of Yiddish culture, the first to be held since the 1908 Czernowitz Conference for the Yiddish Language; about 100 delegates attended, including 11 from the United States. The first chairman of YKUF was the non-Communist writer Alexander Mukdoni; the secretary to 1957 was the poet Zishe Weinper, an efficient fundraiser for YKUF and, according to Melech Epstein, a secret member of the Communist Party. In the U.S., ficial support also came from the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order, the Jewish section of the International Workers Order. At the time of 