Author: jspunberg

(Courtesy:YIVO Institute For Jewish Research) Great Yiddish and Hebrew writers (left to right): Mendele Moykher Sforim, Sholem Aleichem, Mordecai (Rabbinowicz) Ben-Ammi, and Hayyim Nahman Bialik […]

(Courtesy:Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars) Affiliation:Professor of Russian Studies, University of Arizona; Senior Associate Member, St. Antony’s College, Oxford Trinity Term 2005 Expertise:Church-state relations in […]

POLE-CATHOLIC AND GENTLEMAN by John Stape (Courtesy: Random House of Canada Limited) ‘Balzac got married in Berdichev. I must write that in my notebook. Balzac […]

Joseph Conrad in 1893 Joseph Conrad in 1922 Nowy Swiat 47 (Warsaw-Poland) where J. Conrad lived with his father Joseph Conrad (December 3, 1857- August […]

(Courtesy: Jewish Enciclopedia) DER NISTER (Yidd. “the concealed one”; pseudonym of Pinkhes Kahanovich; 1884–1950), Yiddish writer. BiographyBorn in Berdichev, Ukraine, he received a traditional Jewish […]

(Courtesy: Wikipedia) Der Nister (1884 in Berdichev, Ukraine – 1950 the Soviet Gulag) was the penname of Pinchas Kahanovich, a Yiddish author, philosopher, translator, and […]

From E.Segal (Calgary University) The most ingenious ruse for circumventing the government al objections was surely that of Alexander Zederbaum, editor of the weekly Ha-Melitz. […]

Courtesy: Robert Chandler (September, 2006) The Russian writer’s novel “Life and Fate”—often compared with “War and Peace”—was first published in English in the mid-1980s. But […]

(Courtesy: Tommywood, byTom Teicholz – March 31,2006) The recent publication of “A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman With the Red Army, 1941-1945” (Pantheon) brings attention […]

Essay by Lara Vapnyar(Courtesy of NEXTBOOK – a gateway to Jewish lterature, culture & ideas) Midway through Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman’s epic novel set […]