In one of the novels by Jewish writer Shmuel Gordon, a group of Jews survive the Holocaust by being hidden in a Kuban Cossack "stanista". In one of Gordon's best known novels, "A Fruit from the Tree of Life", a young Jewish farmer Shiye-Mikhl Royz, fights heroically in World War Two in a Cossack division. A recurring theme of the treatment of Cossacks by Jewish writers was presenting the Cossacks as a symbol of macho masculinity, strength, virility, and aggression, displaying the qualities that the stereotypical inhabitants of the shtetls were felt to lack by the more modernizing Jewish writers who condemned the Orthodox Jews who lived in the "shtetls" as backward and lacking in vigor. In the poem "Buy Cigarettes!" by the American poetess Malka Lee, a young Jewish female street seller of cigarettes is very sexually attracted to a handsome, virile Cossack as she imagines his "lion's eyes" undressing her as she pats his horse. The play "Novaia rodina" ("New Homeland") by Victor Fink celebrated Birobidzhan as the coming together of three communities-the Koreans, the Amur Cossacks and the Jews. Each community has its own good and bad characters, but ultimately the good characters from each community learn to co-operate and work with each other. To symbolize the unity achieved, the play ends with mixed marriages with one Jewish character marrying a Korean, another Jewish character marrying an Amur Cossack and another Amur Cossack marrying a Korean.