Yasha Hain
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About the Author:

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Yasha Hain
Haifa, Israel

Yasha Hain was born into a Jewish family in Soviet Latvia and emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1979. He started writing in 2016. Since then he has published five books of poems, short stories, and novels in Russian. His poems and novels were published in Hebrew and English translations. In 2019, he won the Franz Kafka award in the international literary conference “RosKon 2019”.

Bookshelf
100 pms war
by Julia Nemirovskaya, editor

This excellent anthology, compiled and edited by Julia Nemirovskaya, showcases poems by Russian (and Russian-speaking) poets who express their absolute rejection of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

DesyatyjKrug
by David Gay

The documentary novel “The Tenth Circle” tells the story of the life, struggle, and destruction of the Minsk ghetto, one of the largest in the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II. (Russian edition)

1. Dislocation
by Julia Nemirovskaya and Anna Krushelnitskaya, editors

This collection focuses on the war between Russia and Ukraine as seen by Russophone poets from all over the world.

Videos
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EastWest Literary Forum Bilingual Poetry & Prose Reading. July 13, 2025.
Length: 2 hrs. 08 min