Long overlooked, Soviet Jewish stories written after the Holocaust emerge in new translation

Long overlooked, Soviet Jewish stories written after the Holocaust emerge in new translation

The usual perception of Soviet Jewish literature after World War II is that there was none. The conversation around the decades after the Holocaust usually focuses on the refuseniks and large waves of emigration away from a place with a history of suppressing its Jewish minority. A new collection of translated short stories by Soviet Jewish writers, originally published in the USSR in Russian and — mind-blowingly — in Yiddish, challenges that vi…