Category: Literature

(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 […]

(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 […]