# Event Details - **Event Name**: Book Talk – In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 25 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Wed, 25 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: About this EventThe short fiction collected in In the Shadow of the Holocaust, translated by Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav, recovers a range of compelling voices that had been scarcely known or translated, with particular emphasis on the work of women writers. Jewish authors from Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, and Belarus—some writing in Yiddish and others in Russian—tell stories of ordinary people living on after the massive devastation of the Holocaust on Soviet territory, depicting memory, conflict, love, and loss.Writers such as Shira Gorshman, Rivka Rubin, David Bergelson, Itsik Kipnis, Margarita Khemlin, and others offer especially powerful perspectives on survival in the aftermath of genocide. These are not stories only about how people died, but about how they continued to live and make meaning.In this talk, Sasha Senderovich will discuss how these works, and the act of translating them, open new ways of thinking about Holocaust literature, Soviet Jewish history, and the long, uneven afterlives of mass violence.About the speaker is Associate Professor of Slavic, Jewish, and International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, United States. With Harriet Murav, he translated David Bergelson’s (2017) and . He is the author of (2022). He has also written cultural criticism for a number of outlets, including , the , and the . - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/book-talk-in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust-short-fiction-by-jewish-writers/100001979714510393 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, nonprofit - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: The Wiener Holocaust Library - **lat**: 51.5215842 - **long**: -0.1280363 - **full address**: The Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Book Talk – In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/0171c4fd234b73dbea988755379d886b4c7a8f26010b3d9ea1ab3d67bde8b080-rimg-w1200-h675-dca598a9-gmir.jpg?v=1767714461 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Book Talk – In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers being held? - **A:** Book Talk – In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers takes place on Wed, 25 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Wed, 25 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm at The Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Book Talk – In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers? - **A:** Book Talk – In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers is organized by The Wiener Library. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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