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A Writer in the Spa: Identifying Jacob Glatstein’s Protagonist

In his nov­el Ven Yash iz geku­men, Jacob Glat­stein wrote a Poland both famil­iar and strange, and peo­pled it with char­ac­ters based on the real-life lit­er­ary fig­ures and his­to­ri­ans he met in the spa town of Nałęczów. 

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Before Birobidzhan

Yev­geniy Fiks vis­its Biro­bidzhan, and refus­es nos­tal­gia and mourn­ing on his return. 

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