Another post regarding History within Literature

I have noticed that an intricate intertextual web has emerged surrounding several key and peripheral players.

• Nathan Englander's story "The 27th Man" represents one extreme, with a lack definite signifiers, but a clear allegory.
• Ozick's story "Yiddish in America" has clearer signifiers and parallels than Englander's.
• Dara Horn's complete recreation's of Der Nister and Marc Chagall.

All of these need to be worked into my "fiction versus history" inquiry.

Is Edelshtein Glatstein? Yes and no. Certainly we can conceive of this as true; but did the events chronicled in Ozick's story happen to the real Jacob Glatstein? No, they did not.

But if we turn back to Englander's story, and the 27 Yiddish writers who are and are not the ten murdered by Stalin, we see that the story-within-a-story is quite similar to "The Man Who Slept Through the End of the World" by Moyshe Nadir. This real author, however, did not die in Stalin's purges, but from a heart attack in New York.