Yiddish Literature Under Surveillance - Hardcover

by Gennady Estraikh (Author)

This book gives a broad view on Soviet Jewish literary life, and on the repression suffered by Yiddish writers under the Stalinist rule. It is written as a group biography of five authors, whose literary home was in Kyiv, the capital of Soviet Ukraine from 1934 to 1991.

Author Biography

Gennady Estraikh is professor at the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University.