Calvert Journal and Yiddish writers

Calvert Journal is new to me, but it is an ezine I'll need to watch out for. Not only has Owen Hatherley written about the Moscow Metro (a joy for anyone to see) but he has written a long review of the Five Leaves book From Revolution to Repression - Soviet Yiddish writing 1917-1952 in which is included some of the early Chagall illustrations reprinted from the book. (I mention them as one of the illos appears in the current Chagall exhibition in Liverpool, but is wrongly attributed there!). The journal specialises in Russian art and life.
We are very pleased with the review - perhaps too long to reprint here, other than the start: Current events must make the recent opening of a Museum of Tolerance in Moscow look like a bad joke. The museum in fact concentrates on a quite specific area of “tolerance” — the experience of Russian Jews. As ever, the word “tolerance” suggests a certain guilty conscience. Historically, Russia's Jews were perhaps the most visible minority in a territory which has always been a multiplicity of different groups, languages and peoples, entirely inadequately subsumed under the term “Russian”. Even after the break-up of the USSR, the Russian Federation still includes many autonomous republics and national territories inherited from the old Russian Federated Soviet Republic. A new book, From Revolution to Repression: Soviet Yiddish Writing, 1917-52 (Five Leaves Press), edited by the late Yiddishist Joseph Sherman, is a reminder of the distinctive culture that arose in this space — and a reminder of why some would prefer to forget it.
The whole review is on http://calvertjournal.com/comment/show/1427/owen-hatherley-revolution-to-repression-yiddish-literature.
Hatherley seems to suddenly be in Five Leaves' orbit as he is also a contributor to our forthcoming book on Ian Nairn.
From Revolution to Repression has sold its first printing, but the reprint will be through very shortly.

New from Five Leaves: From Revolution to Repression, Soviet Yiddish writing

It is painful that Joseph Sherman is not around to see this book. He fell ill in 2008, just after delivering the first draft of the book, and never recovered, dying in 2009. We postponed the book, fully expecting to work with him when he recovered. His untimely death meant we did not have the heart to continue and the project was shelved. Eventually we realised that the 60th anniversary of the death of the writers included here was due, prompting us to return to the book. The story of August 12 1952 has already been covered in this blog, an entry or two back, so I won't repeat the story, but can now announce that the book is available now from the website below post free in the UK. Overseas buyers might prefer to use http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/ which is post free for other countries.
This book has for once merited the booktrade saw of "long awaited", by friends and colleagues of Joseph in this country, in America and his native South Africa, as well as his family.
We hope in publishing the book to commemorate the Yiddish writers but also Joseph Sherman who saw this book as important in memorialising them.
Here's the order link: http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/from-revolution-to-repression-soviet-yiddish-writing-1917-1952/