Available May 1, 2026
A Story of Jewish Dignity
A profound meditation on systemic antisemitism, survival, and identity — told through the eyes of a physicist who lived through the Siege of Leningrad and the long shadow of Soviet oppression.
About the Book
Through essays, personal vignettes, and historical reflection, Emil Bezverkhny examines one of the defining questions of Soviet Jewish life — weaving his own experience as a physicist, a survivor of the Siege of Leningrad, and a witness to systematic persecution into a luminous, heartbreaking testament.
The Penny Is Gone captures the resilience of the human spirit amidst oppression: the struggle to preserve dignity, the indelible mark of exile on identity, and the meaning of belonging when the world you knew has been taken from you.
Translated by Emil Pitkin, this is a book for anyone who has asked what it means to endure — and what is lost, and what is kept, when a people are forced to leave their home.
Praise
Antisemitism is the politics of the pointing finger. The Penny Is Gone points a finger back and cries 'j'accuse!'
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