Episode 0264: Mendel Osherowitch's Account of Soviet Ukraine in 1932

02/07/2020 30 min
Episode 0264: Mendel Osherowitch's Account of Soviet Ukraine in 1932

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Episode Synopsis

Lubomyr Luciuk spoke with The Shmooze about the recent release of his edited volume "How People Live in Soviet Russia: Impressions from a Journey." Newly translated from the Yiddish, the book chronicles journalist Mendel Osherowitch's account of his visit to Soviet Ukraine in 1932 at a time when millions of Ukrainians were dying of starvation in what historians have come to see as a direct result of Soviet policy. The book has been described as "one of the most penetrating and moving accounts of daily life in Ukraine during the famine."

Episode 0264
July 2, 2020
Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, Massachusetts