Lazar Borodulin
Jewish American Yiddish author
Lazar Borodulin (April 24, 1879 – March 21, 1947) was a Jewish American writer and essayist, writing primarily in Yiddish. He is known as an author of one of the very few science fiction novels written in Yiddish.
Lazar Borodulin was born in Genichesk, Crimea, Russian Empire. In 1900s or 1910s he emigrated to the United States where he started writing popular science articles in various Yiddish outlets, such as Varhayt (Truth), Tog (Day), Tsukunft (Future), Fraynd (Friend, a publication of The Workers Circle), and Gerekhtikeyt (Justice). His works include two books:
On the other side of the Sambation, a scientific and fantastic novel, Yiddish: אויף יענער זייט סמבטיון : וויסענשאפטליכער און פאנטאסטישער ראמאן, romanized: Oyf yener zayt sambatyun, visnshaftlekher un fantastisher roman (New York, 1929)
Milkhomes un antisemitizm (Wars and anti-Semitism) (New York, 1937).
On the Other Side of Sambatyon
On the Other Side of Sambatyon (1929) is one of a very few works of science fiction written in Yiddish. It is a "lost world"/"mad scientist"-type story grounded in the Talmudic lore about Ten Lost Tribes.
Plot
The novel starts with a married couple visiting a Yiddish reporter Hofman worried about a missing red-haired girl. It turns out she disappeared together with a scientist named Berger who invented a ray gun, and Hofman embarks on a quest to find the scientist. It turns out that Berger found his way to the land of mysterious Red Jews beyond the legendary river Sambation.
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