Soviet Moscow’s Yiddish-Gay Dictionary

Yevgeniy Fiks
Jackson Heights: Cicada Press, 2016.
First Edition.

15cm x 10cm. 125 pages. Illustrated wrappers.

“An artist’s edition and trilingual (English/Russian/Yiddish) phrasebook by Yevgeniy Fiks ..[which] attempts to draw connections.. between two marginal communities in Soviet-era Moscow—Jews and gays—in order to reflect on the (dis)similarities of their oppression, identity, self-irony, and practices (or hypothetical practices) of solidarity. This imagined dictionary for Soviet Jewish-Soviet Gay communication is a project that resists oversimplification, forced universality, and the erasure of difference when it comes to the Soviet experience and the Soviet subject.”

. New Book.

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