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David Bezmozgis

David Bezmozgis is the author of The Betrayers and the collection Natasha and Other Stories.

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    The Afterlife

    Alexander ‘Sasha’ Pechersky led a successful prisoner revolt at the Sobibor death camp. His story of extraordinary courage was also the story of millions of Soviet Jews who lived and died in a country that refused to acknowledge their fate.

    byDavid Bezmozgis
  • FICTION
    Immigrant City

    Tablet Original Fiction: ‘On either side of the street rose apartment buildings, thrumming with life and larceny. There it was, my immigrant childhood.’

    byDavid Bezmozgis
  • (Margarita Korol)
    (Margarita Korol)
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    The End of American Jewish Literature, Again

    What role does America play in Jewish life, and by extension what kind of Jewish literature can be created here?

    byDavid Bezmozgis
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    Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman (1959)

    A suppressed portrait of Soviet life

    byDavid Bezmozgis
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    World of Our Fathers, Irving Howe (1976)

    Where we were from

    byDavid Bezmozgis
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    Festival of Candles

    Celebrating Hanukkah—and my grandfather’s birthday—whether behind drawn curtains in Latvia or openly in Canada

    byDavid Bezmozgis
  • Leonard Michaels
    Leonard Michaels
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    On Literary Love

    What happens when the writer you admire most becomes your friend?

    byDavid Bezmozgis
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