Sasha Senderovich is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures and of International Studies at the University of Washington. With Harriet Murav, he translated David Bergelson's Judgment: A Novel (2017). He is the author of How the Soviet Jew Was Made (2022). Harriet Murav is Center for Advanced Study Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her most recent book is As the Dust of the Earth: The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine (2024).

"'Who today is not a witness?' asks one of the characters in this endlessly compelling collection. What Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav give us here is the painstaking, thoughtful and necessary work of rediscovery." —Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa "This beautifully translated and expertly edited collection opens a window into an era seemingly lost to Holocaust Studies. Truly one of the most significant and original additions to Holocaust literature in the last forty years." —James E. Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst "At last, English-language readers have a comprehensive collection of Soviet Holocaust fiction. Senderovich and Murav have put together a collection of source texts that will give access to an understudied area of East European literature." —Amelia Glaser, University of California, San Diego "In the Shadow of the Holocaust brings the English-language reader a part of Jewish culture that has remained on the fringes of the American mainstream to this day. This is a branch of Holocaust literature that fell victim to the cultural cold war between America and the Soviet Union. The Soviet authors tell us about the Holocaust not from far away in America or Israel, but actually from the places where the destruction took place. Here things often speak louder than people, because the things remain the only witnesses who survived it all." —Mikhail Krutikov, The Forward "The memorialisation [of Nazi genocide in the Soviet Union] took place privately in kitchens, in discussions, in letters, and in written and oral accounts such as the short story masterpiece 'A Witness' by David Bergelson, in which the character known as 'the Jew' recounts his harrowing witness statement to another survivor, Dora. Bergelson's story opens the collection and sets the tone. This is a book that lives on in the reader's consciousness not least because it is we who are now responsible for the handing on of memory." —Sasha Dugdale, Jewish Renaissance"Thanks to the superb editorial labors of Professors Senderovich and Murav, this rich collection introduces readers to a fascinating archive of Jewish writing. It represents a major cultural achievement." —Donald Weber, Jewish Book Council

• "Introduction"—Sasha Senderovich And Harriet Murav"A Witness"—David Bergelson"That Kind of Day"—Rivka Rubin"Babyn Yar"—Itsik Kipnis"No Matter When"—Itsik Kipnis"Not Far from Saki"—Shira Gorshman"From House to House"—Shira Gorshman"Pohrebyshche"—Shmuel Gordon"The Picture in the Teacup"—Dina Kalinovskaya"The Wall"—Rivka Rubin"About Yosif"—Margarita Khemlin

Sasha Senderovich is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures and of International Studies at the University of Washington. With Harriet Murav, he translated David Bergelson's Judgment: A Novel (2017). He is the author of How the Soviet Jew Was Made (2022). Harriet Murav is Center for Advanced Study Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her most recent book is As the Dust of the Earth: The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine (2024).

"'Who today is not a witness?' asks one of the characters in this endlessly compelling collection. What Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav give us here is the painstaking, thoughtful and necessary work of rediscovery." —Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa "This beautifully translated and expertly edited collection opens a window into an era seemingly lost to Holocaust Studies. Truly one of the most significant and original additions to Holocaust literature in the last forty years." —James E. Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst "At last, English-language readers have a comprehensive collection of Soviet Holocaust fiction. Senderovich and Murav have put together a collection of source texts that will give access to an understudied area of East European literature." —Amelia Glaser, University of California, San Diego "In the Shadow of the Holocaust brings the English-language reader a part of Jewish culture that has remained on the fringes of the American mainstream to this day. This is a branch of Holocaust literature that fell victim to the cultural cold war between America and the Soviet Union. The Soviet authors tell us about the Holocaust not from far away in America or Israel, but actually from the places where the destruction took place. Here things often speak louder than people, because the things remain the only witnesses who survived it all." —Mikhail Krutikov, The Forward "The memorialisation [of Nazi genocide in the Soviet Union] took place privately in kitchens, in discussions, in letters, and in written and oral accounts such as the short story masterpiece 'A Witness' by David Bergelson, in which the character known as 'the Jew' recounts his harrowing witness statement to another survivor, Dora. Bergelson's story opens the collection and sets the tone. This is a book that lives on in the reader's consciousness not least because it is we who are now responsible for the handing on of memory." —Sasha Dugdale, Jewish Renaissance"Thanks to the superb editorial labors of Professors Senderovich and Murav, this rich collection introduces readers to a fascinating archive of Jewish writing. It represents a major cultural achievement." —Donald Weber, Jewish Book Council

• "Introduction"—Sasha Senderovich And Harriet Murav"A Witness"—David Bergelson"That Kind of Day"—Rivka Rubin"Babyn Yar"—Itsik Kipnis"No Matter When"—Itsik Kipnis"Not Far from Saki"—Shira Gorshman"From House to House"—Shira Gorshman"Pohrebyshche"—Shmuel Gordon"The Picture in the Teacup"—Dina Kalinovskaya"The Wall"—Rivka Rubin"About Yosif"—Margarita Khemlin

Sasha Senderovich is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures and of International Studies at the University of Washington. With Harriet Murav, he translated David Bergelson's Judgment: A Novel (2017). He is the author of How the Soviet Jew Was Made (2022). Harriet Murav is Center for Advanced Study Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her most recent book is As the Dust of the Earth: The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine (2024).

"'Who today is not a witness?' asks one of the characters in this endlessly compelling collection. What Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav give us here is the painstaking, thoughtful and necessary work of rediscovery." —Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa "This beautifully translated and expertly edited collection opens a window into an era seemingly lost to Holocaust Studies. Truly one of the most significant and original additions to Holocaust literature in the last forty years." —James E. Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst "At last, English-language readers have a comprehensive collection of Soviet Holocaust fiction. Senderovich and Murav have put together a collection of source texts that will give access to an understudied area of East European literature." —Amelia Glaser, University of California, San Diego "In the Shadow of the Holocaust brings the English-language reader a part of Jewish culture that has remained on the fringes of the American mainstream to this day. This is a branch of Holocaust literature that fell victim to the cultural cold war between America and the Soviet Union. The Soviet authors tell us about the Holocaust not from far away in America or Israel, but actually from the places where the destruction took place. Here things often speak louder than people, because the things remain the only witnesses who survived it all." —Mikhail Krutikov, The Forward "The memorialisation [of Nazi genocide in the Soviet Union] took place privately in kitchens, in discussions, in letters, and in written and oral accounts such as the short story masterpiece 'A Witness' by David Bergelson, in which the character known as 'the Jew' recounts his harrowing witness statement to another survivor, Dora. Bergelson's story opens the collection and sets the tone. This is a book that lives on in the reader's consciousness not least because it is we who are now responsible for the handing on of memory." —Sasha Dugdale, Jewish Renaissance"Thanks to the superb editorial labors of Professors Senderovich and Murav, this rich collection introduces readers to a fascinating archive of Jewish writing. It represents a major cultural achievement." —Donald Weber, Jewish Book Council

• "Introduction"—Sasha Senderovich And Harriet Murav"A Witness"—David Bergelson"That Kind of Day"—Rivka Rubin"Babyn Yar"—Itsik Kipnis"No Matter When"—Itsik Kipnis"Not Far from Saki"—Shira Gorshman"From House to House"—Shira Gorshman"Pohrebyshche"—Shmuel Gordon"The Picture in the Teacup"—Dina Kalinovskaya"The Wall"—Rivka Rubin"About Yosif"—Margarita Khemlin