TY  - BOOK
ED  - Budnitskii, Oleg
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022//
TI  - Archive of Jewish History: Volume 12
PB  - Academic Studies Press
CY  - Boston, MA
KW  - Jews
KW  - Russia
KW  - History
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
KW  - Jewish literature
KW  - Jewish writers
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Stalin
KW  - archival material
KW  - persecution
KW  - surveillance
AB  - The 12th volume of the Archive opens with a study by Yefim Melamed (Kyiv) on the history of Stalinist secret services' surveillance of Jewish writers in the late 1930s and early 1950s, which resulted in repression and the physical destruction of many of them. In the appendix to his article, a unique material is published - reports of a secret agent who reported on the activities of the "fellow-writers". Grigory Khan (Moscow) makes another contribution to the study of the "endless" topic: the Jews and the Russian revolution. His research is dedicated to Aaron Zundelevich (1852-1923), a prominent figure in the narodnik movement, a member of the Executive Committee of the Narodnaya Volya organization (lit. People's Will). Roberta de Giorgi (Udine, Italy) devoted her extensive research to the history of translations and publication of Leo Tolstoy's Three Tales, which, at the request of Sholom Aleichem, gave him for publication in a collection in favor of the Jews who suffered from the pogrom in Chișinău. The story turned out to be extremely intricate and fascinating, and it adds additional touches to the biography of Leo Tolstoy, Sholom Aleichem, as well as to the history of literary life and publishing in the early twentieth century. Maria Gulakova (St. Petersburg) publishes a letter from the ethnographer and public figure Moses Krol (1862-1942) to Chaim Zhitlowsky. Information contained in a letter from Krol (then an émigré in Paris) dated March 26, 1936, sheds light on a little-known attempt to organize the resettlement of European Jews in the 1930s in Ecuador. The published materials are based on documents extracted from various archives in Moscow, Kyiv, New York, Jerusalem and Leeds
SN  - 9781644698846
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781644698846
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781644698846/original
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644698846?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644698846
DO  - 10.1515/9781644698846?locatt=mode:legacy
DO  - 10.1515/9781644698846
LA  - English
N1  - ed. by Oleg Budnitskii
ID  - 1806266946
ER  -