The Birobidzhan Affair: A Yiddish Writer in Siberia (English and Yiddish Edition)

Type

Book

Authors

Israel Emiot

ISBN 10

0827601913

ISBN 13

9780827601918

Tags

Judaism, Criminology

Abstract

Political prisoners - Russian; Jews - Russian; Birobidzhan

Description

Donated by Edgar Landerman. "Israel Emiot's prison memoir, The Birobidzhan Affair, is a poignant, captivating chronicle of the persecution of Jews and Jewish culture in the last years of Stalin's Russia. It stands out among the dozens of such accounts for the simple reason that its author was a sensitive, talented writer who managed to convey his gruesome experiences in a controlled yet forceful manner, a style at once laconic and impassioned. The result is a gripping story of one man's tortures and hopes and a valuable historical document.
both in its own right and for the mass of important data it contains. In this respect, Emiot's work resembles
Solzhenitsyn's monumental Gulag Archipelago." - from Amzon

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