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The shadows of Berlin : the Berlin stories of Dovid Bergelson by Bergelson, David, 1884-1952; Neugroschel, Joachim is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Shadows of Berlin is, in part, a bleak chronicle of life in Europe growing ever more hostile at the edge of World War II, part mythic parable. Bergelsons storiespassionate, honest, dark and often hilarioushint at the possibility of redemption even as they suggest a horror just around the corner.Dovid Bergelson (18841952) is considered to be one of the best Soviet Yiddish writers of the twentieth century. He was executed in 1952 as part of Stalins purge of Soviet Yiddish culture.Joachim Neugroschel is the winner of three PEN Translation Awards and the French-American Translation Prize. His translations include works by Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann.

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Author

Bergelson, David, 1884-1952; Neugroschel, Joachim

Publisher

San Francisco : City Lights Books

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780872864535

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Sociology

Rating

3.72 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14