Category: Literature

(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 […]

(by Vasily Grossman)Translated by Robert Chandler Review by Nancy Sherman In Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman’s 1960 novel about the Battle of Stalingrad, dozens of […]

Vassily Grossman was born in 1905.When a student of the Moscow State University he began writing short stories.He continued his literary activity working as an […]

(Unsung genius among great modern Russian novelists) Courtesy: Simon Pirani  Grossman, WWII-time photo Simon Pirani pays tribute to a forgotten writer. KGB Colonel Vladimir Prokopenko came […]

Outside Looking In — Just the Way He Wanted ItIn the Great Russian Literary Tradition of Alienation and Marginalism,Friedrich Gorenstein’s Death May Give Him the […]

From Israel Aksenfeld to Friedrich GorenshteynCourtesy: Mikhail Krutikov The rise and fall of Berdichev´s not typical, but very characteristic Jewish community, to use the characterization given […]