'Maurice Wolfthal has done a service to the fields of Yiddish and Polish studies by making The Fall of Berlin newly available in English translation. As one of the few accounts of this wartime experience written in Yiddish, it speaks both to the hunger for new literature in Yiddish after the war as well as to the presence of these Jewish voices within the Red Army. The Fall of Berlin would not only be a welcome addition to a syllabus on Holocaust literature, but it would also be an important reading for a variety of courses, including those that address the multi-ethnic dimensions of the Red Army, the tumultuous immediate postwar era, or, more broadly, the dilemmas facing victors at the end of war.'
Rachelle Grossman
The Polish Review,