Blood

David Khait

1928

The train pulls up to the platform, steaming and boiling like a samovar.

Lazar is standing on the platform—short, glowing, joyful—waving his dirty handkerchief at the cars.

The train is on its way to Moscow. On the platform is the usual train station commotion, the ringing, pushing, and smell of coal and sand. Lazar and Ruth are running past the…

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David Khait

1899–1979

A prolific, if minor, Soviet Jewish writer in the Russian language, David Khait wrote about Jewish identity and other issues, strictly following the guidelines of 1930s socialist realism. His writing was marked by frequent praise of Stalin, the successes of Birobidzhan, and the wonders of the Soviet project writ large.

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