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

Israel Emiot

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0827601913 ISBN 13: 9780827601918

Publisher: Jewish Pubn Society, 1981

Synopsis

"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 The result is a gripping story of one man's tortures and hopes and a valuable historical document.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."

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Yiddish (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Jewish Pubn Society
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0827601913
• ISBN 13: 9780827601918
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 205