New-Russia Professor Yoel Elitzur Miniature masterpieces which caused a

Miniature masterpieces which caused a complete reevaluation of his art and helped his readers understand how profoundly modern the master of the old-world pietistic stories truly was—a writer of world-class stature

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New-Russia Professor Yoel Elitzur Miniature masterpieces which caused aIt was the autumn of 1926 when Israel Joshua Singer, at the invitation of the editor of the New York Yiddish daily Forverts, traveled to the Soviet Union for a reportage that would take him several months. These images and impressions are written in a moment, as is always the case with travelers, he would comment on his work, which nevertheless constitutes an exceptional, and in many ways unique, testimony. I. J. Singer, who had already observed the