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September 10, 2026

Vasily Grossman’s First Reports on the Holocaust

“Ukraine without Jews.”

The Soviet Jewish journalist and novelist Vasily Grossman was a perceptive critic of Communism, one of the first people to witness and describe the Shoah who hadn’t lived through it, and one of the great chroniclers of the annihilation of the Russian Jewry. He also managed, thanks to censorship and self-censorship, to avoid the Gulag. Reviewing a new collection of his work, Gary Saul Morson writes:

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