#refuseniks — Public Fediverse posts
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"The usual perception of #Soviet #Jewish #literature after #WorldWarII is that there was none. The conversation around the decades after the #Holocaust usually focuses on the #refuseniks and large waves of emigration away from a place with a history of suppressing its Jewish minority.
A new collection of #translated #shortstories by Soviet #Jewishwriters, originally published in the #USSR in #Russian and — mind-blowingly — in #Yiddish, challenges that view. For someone who grew up in #Ukraine and #Russia not knowing much about my roots because my #Jewish grandfather remained silent on the subject of anything Jewish, I read “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” with a thirst I didn’t know I had.
In these 10 #stories by seven authors, Jewish survivors are dealing directly with the ruins of a world that is no more. Unlike their #American counterparts, however, they continue making a life in the proximity of the tragedy, among cemeteries and unmarked ravines."
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The ‘Tangpingist Manifesto’, Bob Black’s The Abolition of Work, David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs, and Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet #Chinesehippies #dropouts #refuseniks #anarchy #celibacy #weird madeinchinajournal.com/2025/08/05/o...
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"A document detailing a mid-war inventory of its ranks shows that by late May, fewer than 900 soldiers were left in two #battalion tactical groups that, according to Western officials, had departed the brigade's garrison in #Russia with more than 1,400. The brigade's commander was badly wounded. And some of those still being counted as part of the unit were listed as hospitalized, missing or "#refuseniks" unwilling to fight, according to the document,..." 3/