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David Bergelson - Among Refugees

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David Bergelson - Among Refugees

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מידת־הדין | Harsh Judgment | In geveb

Mides hadin (1929) is one of David Bergelson’s most innovative and experimental works. An aura of mystery infuses the opening chapter: three riders go out on an

Mides hadin (Harsh Judgment, 1929) is one of Bergelson’s most innovative and experimental works, both stylistically and thematically. This novel was written after Bergelson’s earlier acclaimed works, such as Opgang (Descent) and Nokh alemen(The End of Everything) had earned him a reputation as one of Yiddish literature’s most important authors. Harsh Judgment unflinchingly confronts the death of the shtetl and the birth of a “new, harsher world” created by the Russian Revolution of 1917, by tracing the establishment of Bolshevik power in a place where people, goods, and counterrevolutionary literature are smuggled across the border. An aura of mystery infuses the opening chapter: the setting is a former monastery, now serving as a jail, interrogation center, and place of execution. It is presided over by Filipov, the new boss who suffers from a mysterious illness yet is feared by his deputies, Igumenko, Andreyev, and Zubok. Marfusha, the cleaning woman, seems unhinged, and the evening patrol seems more like a dream than reality. One note: none of the characters in the novel’s first chapter are Jewish, although Jewish protagonists do appear later in the novel.

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“La noche de los poetas asesinados: Peretz Markish, David Hofstein, Itzik Fefer, Leib Kvitko, David Bergelson, Salomón Lozovsky, Boris Shimeliovich, Benjamin Zuskin, Joseph Yuzefovich, Leon Talmy, Ilya Vatenberg, Chaika Vatenburg-Ostrovskaya, Emilia Teumin” 13 de agosto de 1952, sótanos de la prisión de Lubyanka, Moscú; trece intelectuales judíos y máximos exponentes de la literatura en Iddish de la Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas, los cuales seis años antes habían sido encarcelados por orden directa de Stalin, son ejecutados por ser considerados traidores a la patria.