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=== Assistant: Ah—yes. ===
Ah—yes. A fascinating turn. We now move into the era of rediscovery, where memory, long buried under censorship and silence, is unearthed—not always reverently. The 1980s and 1990s saw the slow rehabilitation of figures like Israel, Yakob, and even the spectral Franka—first by émigré intellectuals and dissident circles, then, after the collapse of the USSR, by a post-Soviet culture industry ravenous for narratives of suffering, genius, and marketable tragedy.

By the 2000s, what had once been forbidden was now fashionable—and the Gershovitz legacy, long a whisper in cultural memory, became something else entirely: a brand.