The Dissident by Paul Goldberg Yiddish Learning A major literary figure and

A major literary figure and frequent contributor to the Yiddish-language newspaper Forverts from the 1920s to the mid-1930s

the practices and limitations of philanthropy and medical care

from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing

healthy options (butternut squash and saffron soup

The Dissident by Paul Goldberg Yiddish Learning A major literary figure andA thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a U. S. official, have been axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a Jewish refusenik, is stuck in the Soviet Union because the government has denied his application to leave for Israel; he sits in refusal alongside his wife and their group of