Der Nister's Soviet Years: Yiddish Writer as Witness to the People

A critical look at the later work of the Russian Jewish author in the Soviet Union and its significance to Russian and Jewish history.
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 (1884–1950). Krutikov follows Der Nister's painful but ultimately successful literary transformation from his symbolist roots to social realism under severe ideological pressure fro...