ZOOM BOOK LAUNCH EVENT 

 

 Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag 

by Julius Margolin 

(Oxford University Press) 

 

The first full English translation of a masterful Gulag memoir that preceded Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago by decades. 

 

Panelists: 

• Deborah Kaple, Princeton University (the author of Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir) 
• Stefani Hoffman, Hebrew University (book translator)  
• Leona Toker, Hebrew University (the author of Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors) 
  
   
  
  Chair: Eli Lederhendler, Hebrew University  
  
   
  
  21 March 2021, 20:00 (Israel ST), 14:00 (EST) 
  
   
  
  Zoom link:  https://huji.zoom.us/j/81179568850?pwd=bjhzVWk5YXVTdzlyR3hnRisxdXl5Zz09 
  
   
  
  HOST: 
  
  The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem  
  
   
  
  A powerful, fine-grained account of war, occupation, and the Gulag from an extraordinarily gifted writer. Margolin vividly details the Eastern European world of Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Belarussians, and others living in fear under the German and Soviet occupation of their countries. His searing description of Gulag servitude is a ghastly refresher on mass dehumanization and how it robbed prisoners of their identity, family, memories, health, and sanity.”—Deborah Kaple, Princeton University 
  
   
  
  This long-awaited English-language publication is a game changer in both Soviet studies and Jewish studies.”—Maxim D. Shrayer, editor of Voices of Jewish-Russian Literature.  
  
   
  
  For further details about the book, please read here. 
  
   
  
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