Der Nister's Soviet Years: Yiddish Writer as Witness to the People Discount told in candid recollections and

told in candid recollections and passionate readings by Paley herself

and religious persecution

a dreamy optimist who travels to New York and across Eastern Europe in search of an elusive fortune at the approach of World War I

and he wrote one of the most influential works of Jewish catastrophe literature in modern times

Der Nister's Soviet Years: Yiddish Writer as Witness to the People Discount told in candid recollections andListen to our podcast with author Mikhail Krutikov here. In Der Nister's Soviet Years, author Mikhail Krutikov focuses on the second half of the dramatic writing career of Soviet Yiddish writer Der Nister, pen name of Pinhas Kahanovich (18841950). Krutikov follows Der Nister's painful but ultimately successful literary transformation from his symbolist roots to social realism under severe ideological pressure from Soviet critics and authorities. This