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A high-quality Soviet Yiddish literary magazine is being digitized

Zackary Sholem Berger in Forward · 16 May

Every issue of the Yiddish literary magazine Sovetish heymland, which ran from 1961 to 1991, is currently being digitized for the first time in history by an initiative led by the Heritage Project Foundation in the U.S. and the Yiddish Culture Preservation Foundation in Israel, spearheaded by Mark Zilberquit.

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Cultural Life in the Vilna Ghetto

Abraham Sutzkever in Jewish Review of Books · 9 Sep 2021

This article discusses the cultural life in the Vilna Ghetto during the German occupation from 1941 to 1943.

0 Literature History

The Yiddish Madame Bovary’s Abortion

Dara Horn in Tablet · 8 Oct 2018

Dovid Bergelson, a prominent Yiddish novelist loyal to the Soviet government, was executed by Stalin in 1952.

0 History Antisemitism

Patriotism and Its Discontents

A.E. Smith in Jewish Review of Books · 18 Sep 2017

"The Patriots" by Sana Krasikov is a novel that follows the life of Florence Fein, an American Jew who moves to the USSR seeking a just society but ends up disillusioned, manipulated into betraying others, and suffering in the Gulag.

0 Holocaust Literature

No Straight Path From Dogma to Dissent

Forward · 10 Jul 2012

Vassily Grossman, a Jewish writer recognized for his dissent against Stalin and Hitler's regimes, is portrayed in a new biography as someone who once adhered to Marxist-Leninist dogma.