Judgment

by Dovid Bergelson, Sasha Senderovich, Harriet Murav

Book Overview

Never before available in English, Judgment is a work of startling power by David Bergelson, the most celebrated Yiddish prose writer of his era.

Originally published in 1929 and set in 1920 during the Russian civil war, Judgment traces the death of the shtetl and the birth of the "new, harsher world" created by the 1917 revolution. Jews and non-Jews smuggle people, goods, and anti-Bolshevik literature back and forth across the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810135914
• ISBN13: 9780810135918
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.9"