Daftar Isi
Foreword by Zvi Gitelman
Note on the Translation and Transliteration
Acronyms and Abbreviation
Preface
Part One: DER NISTER’S JOURNEY FROM MOSCOW TO BIROBIDZHAN
A Wedding on a Migrant Train
Der Nister’s Images and Impressions
“With the Second Echelon”
“With the New Settlers to Birobidzhan”
A Man Dieth in a Tent
Russian-Jewish “Hybridization”
Comfort Ye My People
Real Action
Part Two: INVESTIGATION CASE NO. 68
Der Nister Affair
Accused in the Case
Detention Order: BUZI MILLER, June 6, 1949, Birobidzhan
Interrogation Records
Defendant HESHL RABINKOV, July 23, 1949, Khabarovsk
Defendant BUZI MILLER, August 5, 1949, Khabarovsk
Defendant BUZI MILLER, August 29, 1949, Khabarovsk
Defendant BUZI MILLER, September 17, 1949, Khabarovsk
Defendant ITSIK FEFER, June 30, 1949, Moscow
Defendant BUZI MILLER, October 1949, Khabarovsk
Defendant BUZI MILLER and Defendant HESHL RABINKOV, October 28, 1949, Khabarovsk (Confrontation)
Defendant LUBA VASSERMAN, July 12, 1949, Khabarovsk
Arrestee GRIGORI FRID, April 4, 1938, Minsk (Testimony)
Defendant LUBA VASSERMAN, August 17, 1949, Khabarovsk
Defendant SHIMEN SINIAVSKI-SINDELEVICH, October 25, 1949, Khabarovsk
Defendant FAIVISH ARONES, November 21, 1949, Khabarovsk
Defendant FAIVISH ARONES, November [22–29?], 1949, Khabarovsk
Defendant FAIVISH ARONES and Witness ALEKSANDR DRISIN, November 29, 1949, Khabarovsk (Confrontation)
Resubmission of the Indictment: Defendant BUZI MILLER, December 15, 1949, Khabarovsk
Bill of Indictment: BUZI MILLER, HESHL RABINKOV, ISROEL EMIOT, BER SLUTSKI, LUBA VASSERMAN, SHIMEN SINIAVSKI-SINDELEVICH, and FAIVISH ARONES, April 6, 1950, Khabarovsk (Excerpts)
The Sentence: BUZI MILLER, May 31, 1950, Moscow (Excerpt)
Resolution to Reduce the Prison Term and Release BUZI MILLER from Custody, December 27, 1955, Moscow (Excerpt)
Appendix: Der Nister’s “Birobidzhan Manifesto” (Yiddish)
Bibliography
Index of Names and Places