Author: jspunberg

(Courtesy:”The Nation’, by Jochen Hellbeck – December 2010) In 1961 Vasily Grossman was summoned by Mikhail Suslov, the Soviet Union’s ideological commissar, to discuss the […]

(Courtesy: Blake Eskin) A collection of Vasily Grossman’s shorter work offers a chance to reassess the Soviet master’s life and legacy. A conversation with Grossman […]

(Courtesy: The New Yorker)) by Keith Gess Vassilly Grossman, a beloved Soviet writer’s path to dissent In the terrible winter of 1938, just before the […]

He was born in Berdichev in 1908, his first poem was published in 1927 in the newspaper «Di voh» ( «The Week»). He concluded his […]

(Courtesy: John Stape) ‘Balzac got married in Berdichev. I must write that in my notebook. Balzac got married in Berdichev.’ In Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Chebutykin, memorably […]

(by Jerzy Stempowski) This volume of essays gives the reader the opportunity to become acquainted with works which without doubt belong to the canon of […]

(by Pinchas ben Avraham Aryeh – printed in Berdichev in 1902)

(by Fridkin, Yaakov – printed in Berdichev in 1912)

Terror in Berdichev, 1941 by M.T.Simkovitz Historical fiction novel about the Holocaust in the town of Berdichev, Ukraine during 1941-1942. The story centers around a […]