Yiddish Theater Actors Plot to Assassinate Stalin during His Last Days

The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 19, 2016

In his debut novel, The Yid award-winning investigative reporter Paul Goldberg tells the story of a ramshackle group of Yiddish-speaking artists and actors who devise a convoluted plan to assassinate Joseph Stalin just before his death in 1953. 

Event: Paul Goldberg will be reading and signing on February 23rd at 7:00 p.m. at R.J. Julia Booksellers (768 Boston Post Road Madison, CT). 

He'll be in conversation with his editor, James Meader, on February 24th at 7:00 p.m. Community Bookstore (143 7th Ave., Park Slope Brooklyn). 

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