Soviet Moscow’s Yiddish-Gay Dictionary

Soviet Moscow’s Yiddish-Gay Dictionary
Author: Yevgeniy Fiks
Publisher: Cicada Press
Language: English
Pages: 126
Size: 10.5 x 15.5 cm
Weight: 60 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9780991042036
Price: €14.00
Product Description

This book attempts to draw connections, at times contradictory and counterintuitive, 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.
An artist's edition and trilingual (English/Russian/Yiddish) phrasebook.