Communism
Julien Benda’s scribes without Torah.
Though they seem to have no qualms about Russia’s occupation of its neighbor.
The children of Jewish Communists needed a therapeutic process to work through the effects of growing up in a political cult. They didn’t get it.
Watch our recording of the classic Russian Jewish stories. Then stick around for the discussion with Natan Sharansky, Ruth Wisse, and Gary Saul Morson.
The great Russian Jewish writer was caught between revolution and daily life, Bolsheviks and Jews, a desire to kill and an inability to pull the trigger. Did he ever choose?
The author of “The Eternal Return of Ethel Rosenberg” joins us for a discussion about his subject’s unending—and false—air of innocence.
Longing to leave liberalism behind, everyone from Catholics to Communists is experimenting with self-transformation. What’s fueling that desire, and is it strong enough to make the break?
Poles who saved Jews feared retribution, while those who turned them in were exonerated.
Uncovering a dark family secret.
Michael Gold, literary hatchet man.
A newly translated memoir of the gulag should (but probably won’t) remind those who still flirt with Communism what exactly they’re endorsing.
As an “unrecognized” religion, Judaism is illegal.
How a much-lauded historian with a genius for identifying similarities—but no eye for differences—misreads Jewish history.
When Jews preferred Nazi ghettos to Soviet equality of rights.