Kleiner, Izrail Abramovych

[SIGNED] Anekdotychna trahediia [Anecdotal Tragedy]

Munich: Suchasnist', 1974. Item #1576

156 pp. 20 cm. Original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Cover design by Rema Bagautdyniva. Ukrainian language.

Original red-and-black illustrated wrappers with minor shelf wear and slight edgewear; small creasing and light rubbing visible along extremities. Text block is clean and structurally sound. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page.

An autobiographical prose work by Ukrainian-Jewish journalist and public intellectual Izrail Kleiner (1935–2008). Written in a satirical, ironic narrative mode that blends anecdote, grotesquerie, and tragic reflection, the book explores the lived experience of a Jewish intellectual in the Soviet Union and the mechanisms of absurdity, repression, and humiliation characteristic of late Soviet society. Published in Munich by the influential Ukrainian émigré press Suchasnist’, the work belongs to the literature of the so-called “third wave” of Soviet emigration and reflects the intellectual milieu of the Ukrainian diaspora during the 1970s. Kleiner, who emigrated from the USSR to Israel in 1971 and later worked with Radio Liberty and the Ukrainian section of Voice of America, was an active participant in debates on national and Jewish questions in the Soviet Union.

Price: $150.00