"How did #SovietAuthors treat the #Holocaust? How did it differ from work elsewhere? And what are some of the challenges translating these works into English?"

#HarrietMurav and #SashaSenderovich discuss the new collection of #shortStories they edited and translated, #InTheShadowOfTheHolocaust: Short Fiction by #JewishWriters from the #SovietUnion

https://www.euraknot.org/soviet-holocaust-literature/
#SovietJews #JewishHistory #WWII #SovietLiterature #HolocaustLiterature #books @bookstodon

If you're thinking there's no way that a war on the other side of the planet can profoundly affect the Jewish Community in a negative way, well, the history of Soviet Jews suggests otherwise...

40 years ago, a refusenik made art of the Soviet Jewish tragedy. At 82, he is seeing its first English translation, By Penny Schwartz December 18, 2018

https://www.jta.org/2018/12/18/culture/40-years-ago-a-refusenik-made-art-of-the-soviet-jewish-tragedy-at-82-he-is-seeing-its-first-english-translation

OBITUARY: David Shrayer-Petrov
January 28, 1936 – June 9, 2024

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/brookline-ma/david-shrayer-petrov-11853446

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #SovietJews #JewishHistory #JewishAuthors

"My friends and I were exposed to the different cultural elements of the city — Jewish, Ukrainian, Russian, and so on. In spite of the horrors of the 20th century, Chernivtsi remained a city where people and books live."

Ihor Pomerantsev talks with Kate Tsurkan about the literary history and present of Chernivtsi - very interesting discussion in the LA Review of Books.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-is-the-secret-of-chernivtsi-a-conversation-with-igor-pomerantsev/

#Ukraine #Jewish #PaulCelan #Chernivtsi #SovietJews #Mazeldon