“Bergelson”
Review
Review of Dovid Bergelson's "Die Welt möge Zeuge sein": Erzählungen
Carmen Reichert
This collection of translated stories presents a new side of David Bergelson to German readers.
May 20, 2024
Blog
Milgroym's Cultural Context
Naomi Brenner
Weimar Berlin, Yiddish art journals, editorial conflicts—Naomi Brenner explains the cultural context of the journal Milgroym.
Feb 06, 2018
Article
Translation, Cosmopolitanism and the Resilience of Yiddish: Wischnitzer’s Milgroym as a Pathway Towards the Global Museum
Susanne Marten-Finnis
Reading Rachel Wischnitzer's editorial vision for the journal Milgroym as a "global museum."
Jan 29, 2018
Review
Judgment
Boris Dralyuk
In time for the one hundredth anniversary of the October revolution, Dovid Bergelson's novel Mides-hadin is out in a new translation by Harriet Murav and Sasha Senderovich.
Nov 07, 2017
Review
“The Worst Good Idea Ever”? The Birobidzhan Project and Soviet Jewish Culture
Natalie Belsky
Masha Gessen's new book explores the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan through the story of David Bergelson and Simon Dubnow, whose thought and writing influenced its development.
Jun 26, 2017
Texts & Translation
מידת־הדין
Harsh Judgment
David Bergelson
Translation by Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav
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 evening patrol that seems more like dream than reality.
Aug 14, 2015