12/12 | Birthday of Vasily Grossman
Today in Yiddishkayt… December 12 Birthday of Vasily Grossman, Author Vasily Semyonovich Grossman was born on December 12, 1905 in Barditshev (today Berdychiv, Ukraine) the once-major Jewish city made famous in Yiddish literature in the work of Mendele Moykher-Sforim and Sholem Aleichem. His first major story, “In the Town of Berdichev” brought him to the attention of Maxim Gorki and Isaak Babel who said of it that “Our Yid capital has been seen through new eyes.” His magnum opus, Life and Fate, written about the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and...
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