LEAP YEAR TORN APART

Leap Year Torn Apart is a bilingual, English-Russian rhymed biographical tale recounting the tragic fate of a Russian Jewish family devastated by events in Stalin's final years, during the early 1950s. The English translation is followed by the rhymed Russian original. Initially written in Russian and translated into English by the author in collaboration with the late Canadian-American poet Jayne Berland, this tale draws heavily from Soviet media narratives of the time.  These publications