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The events of the novel Stones Don t Bear Witness take place at the beginning of the 20th century in Czarist Russia. In the provincial town of Dubossary, a young Christian boy, Mikhail Ribachenko, is murdered under mysterious circumstances. The local peasants accuse the local Jews of the murder, which is supposedly for ritual purposes. The anti-Semitic press, with Pavolaki Krushevan, the editor of Bessarabets (The Bessarabian) in the lead, blows the case out of proportion throughout Russia. An agent of the secret police is sent to Kishinev; making use of the overheated state of Christian-Jewish relations, he is able to instigate a bloody anti-Jewish pogrom. The writer, Boris Sandler, relying on documents found in the governmental archives of Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kishinev, carries out his own investigation of those long-ago events. The book is written in the form of a historical detective novel.
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About the Author
Boris Sandler was born in 1950 in Belz, Bessarabia. In 1975, he graduated from the Music Conservatory in Kishinev and subsequently played violin in the Moldovian Symphony Orchestra. In 1983, he received the highest degree in Literature from the Literary Institute in Moscow. He then became a writer for the Moscow-based Yiddish magazine Sovetish Heymland and a member of its editorial board. In 1989, he created a Yiddish show, On The Jewish Street, on the Moldovian State Television, and later wrote and produced two documentary films: Don t Give Up, Yiddish (1991) and Where Is My Home (1992). From 1989 to 1992, he was President of the Yiddish Cultural Organization of Moldova, and from 1990 to 1992 he was the Yiddish editor of the bilingual journal Undzer Kol (Our Voice) in Kishinev. In 1992, Sandler emigrated to Israel, where he edited the children s magazine Kind un Keyt (The Whole Family); while in Israel, he received several prestigious literary awards. In 1998, he emigrated to the United States to become Editor-in-Chief of the Yiddish Forverts, his present position. He has published 13 books of fiction, including the Russian version of the present novel in 2004; his most recent novel is The Hidden Righteous Ones of My Memory (New York, 2011).
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Stones Don't Bear Witness: A Historical Novel of the Kishinev Pogrom
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