Tag: Jewish Anti Fascist Committee

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.
This article discusses the cultural life in the Vilna Ghetto during the German occupation from 1941 to 1943.
Dovid Bergelson, a prominent Yiddish novelist loyal to the Soviet government, was executed by Stalin in 1952.
"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.
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.