This is a scrupulously researched history of Yiddish literature in Ukraine ... The book explores the logic of Stalinist repression, the paranoia that generated ubiquitous accusations of nationalism, Zionism and anti-Sovietism. It introduces readers to a remarkable, long ignored and important episode in Jewish and Ukrainian cultural history, one that enriches our understanding of the Soviet experience, of how Yiddish and Ukrainian writers interacted, and how the dream of national modernism inspired literary creativity in the twentieth century.

Myroslav Shkandrii, University of Manitoba

This well-researched and well-written book gives an illuminating view on Soviet Jewish literary cultural life and the repression and persecution suffered by Yiddish writers under Stalinist paranoid, tyrannical rule ... Essential [for] general readers through faculty.

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