Transatlantic Literary Import: Soviet Book-Length Translations of American Yiddish Authors
Journal: Yod
Year: 2025

The article aims to contribute to better understanding, first, of the changing relations between Soviet and American Yiddish literary circles, and, second, of Soviet publishing policy and practice concerning foreign authors. The focus is on American Yiddish writers’ books, published in the Soviet Union in Russian and Ukrainian. The prime attention is paid to the cultural and historical context rather than to the lexical and stylistic peculiarities of the translations. Books by Sholem Asch and Jo