Peretz Markish
65 Years Ago, The USSR Murdered Its Greatest Jewish Poets. What’s Left Of Their Legacy?
No one seems to know exactly how many Soviet Jews were executed by the Soviet Union in the basement of Moscow’s Lubyanka Prison on August 12, 1952.
Lev Berinsky, a Poet in Exile Between Time and Eternity
A version of this post appeared in Yiddish.
The Night of the Murdered Poets
On August 12, over 100 people gathered at New York’s Center for Jewish History to mark the 58th anniversary of the Night of the Murdered Poets, commemorating the Stalin-ordered execution of 13 prominent Soviet Jews, including five Yiddish writers.