deepest self denies the face': Polish Jewish intellectuals and the birth of the 'Soviet Marrano'

Focuses on Polish Yiddish intellectuals and their perception of Soviet Yiddish culture. Analyses the role of Polish intellectuals who survived the war in the Soviet Union and adapted the concept of Marranos to the Soviet Yiddish literary scene, in particular for the murdered Soviet Yiddish elite and transmitted this term to western countries after the war