Category: Literature

by Mordecai Yoffe from the edition published in Berditchev, 1818. This is the first of three files (containing simanim 1-122); subdivision of the volume is because of […]

 (Beyond Propaganda)(Courtesy: Richard Wong) A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945by Vasily Grossman. Edited and translated by Antony Beevor and Luba […]

Life and Fate (Vassilly Grossman) Courtesy: Adam Kirsch Writing the story of the Holocaust is a futile ambition—not because the events of 1939 to 1945 […]

(Courtesy: Andrew Glikin-Gusinsky) An overview of the life and times of the prolific Russian writer and war correspondent Vasily Grossman.Russian author Vasily Grossman was a […]

(Courtesy: Theodor Herzl Foundation) Pinkhes-Pinye Kahanovitsh (1884-1950), modern Yiddish literature’s leading symbolis is best known under his pen name, Der Nister. Born in Berdichev, Ukraine, […]

(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 […]