Lazar Borodulin

Lazar Borodulin (April 24, 1879 – March 21, 1947) was a Jewish American writer and essayist, writing primarily in Yiddish.

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).

[5][6] The novel starts with a married couple visiting a Yiddish reporter Hofman worried about a missing red-haired girl.

Its legendary inaccessibility is explained in the novel by the fact that it is made of a chain of constantly erupting geysers.

[7][6] The middle third of the book describes technical and social advancements of the Red Jews, the rest is a quest to and from and a love story.