Fiction that Matters

Ekh Lyuli Lyuli: The Night of the Murdered Poets

sovietjewry:

I weep for you with all the letters of the alphabet
that made your hopeful songs.
— from Chaim Grade’s “Elegy for the Soviet Yiddish Writers”

60 years ago on August 12, 1952, Stalin ordered the execution of 13 Soviet Jews, many of them Yiddish writers, poets, critics, and thinkers, on…

collective-history:

Dismantled statue of Stalin in Budapest, Hungary ca. 1990.

Ferdinando Scianna

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