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October 12, 2018

Jewish Fate and the Soviet-Jewish “Madam Bovary”

Dovid Bergelson’s Yiddish masterpiece and his untimely death.

Arrested in 1949 on charges of “anti-Soviet crimes,” the great Yiddish author Dovid Bergelson was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad in 1952. Bergelson had fled the Soviet Union in 1921 for exile in Berlin, but in 1926 began to take a more pro-Soviet stance, arguing that the USSR was the best place for Yiddish culture to flourish, and he moved to Moscow in 1934. Dara Horn writes:

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October 12, 2018

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