Before World War II, Herbert Cukurs was a famous figure in his small Latvian city, the “Charles Lindbergh of his country.” But by 1945, he was the Butcher of Latvia, a man who murdered some thirty thousand Latvian Jews....
The only book widely available on Estonian food and cooking, ‘Estonian Tastes and Traditions’ completes Hippocrenes coverage of the cuisines of the Baltic region. Estonian food is simple, based on such staples as potatoes, pork, sauerkraut, preserved fish, and...
Features the work of six of Estonia’s most renowned poets: Hasso Krull, Jurgen Rooste, Triin Soomets, Kauksi Ulle, Elo Viiding and Juhan Viiding. An anthology of the work of five highly individual poets of the younger generation together with...
In her introduction Tania Alexander writes, ‘The Baltic philosopher Count Hermann Keyserling . . . once remarked: ”I am not a Dane, not a German, not a Swede, not a Russian nor an Estonian, so what am I –...
This anthology of contemporary Estonian short fiction meets an important need. Although Estonian writers have been known as bold and exciting innovators testing the bounds of Soviet literary doctrine, much of that reputation is based on hearsay; the little...
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