Wiesel, Elie, 352 Wolitz, Seth, 326–27 women, 10, 11, 38, 39, 113, 124. See also gender roles Wordsworth, William, 66 worker, 37, 47, 116, 333. See also proletariat World War I, 165–66 World War II, 225, 275, 281, 282, 283, 301 Yagoda, Genrikh Grigorevich (Enokh Gershenovich), 199, 221 Yaroslavsky, Emelian (Minei Izraelevich Gubelman), 176, 245, 251 Yiddish, 18–20 Brezhnev on, 356 as literary language, 100–101 revolt against, 137 and Russian, 128 and Soviet Jewish nationality, 294 Soviet promotion of, 247 Soviet suppression of, 298, 299, 300. See also Hebrew Yokhelson, Vladimir, 137, 154 Yom Kippur War, 365 Young People’s Socialist League, 265 youth: in Aliger, 282 and American Jews, 263 and Apollo, 24 in Bolshevism, 211–12 and Israel, 327 in modernity, 142, 143 in Russian Empire, 144, 145–46 and Soviet elite, 234–35 and Soviet Union, 230 and Zionism, 149, 211–12. See also father: revolt against Yudovin, Solomon, 126 Yurovsky, Yakov, 178, 180