A Captive of the Dawn: The Life and Work of Peretz Markish 1895-1952

Contributors identified only by name look at the work of Soviet Yiddish poet and playwright Markish, who, along with other members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, was executed for conspiracy against the Soviet regime. Among the topics are his urban poetics as the lighter side of Babel, the language of dispersion and confusion in his manifestos from the Khalyastre period, the Yiddish modernism of his 1922 Radyo as agitprop, his wartime plays, and Markish and the legacy of Soviet Yiddish poetry. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)