Russian Jewry
Sobibor.
A teenaged boy skips his violin lessons.
When Jews did fight back in 1903, anti-Semites blamed them for instigating violence.
Mendele Mokher Seforim’s The Mare.
Deified by their Soviet readers, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are beginning to find increasing numbers of readers in America.
Sorkin, Dvorkin, Rivkin . . .
What You Did Not Tell Me.
The Günzburg collection.
Only the Red Army tried to prevent pogroms.
Even as we celebrate the great advances of post-Soviet Jewish communities, we need to remain vigilant.
Seven decades of persevering, clandestine, hazardous activity devoted to the material and spiritual succor of Jews.
In modern European history, Vladimir Putin is the first classically reactionary and even revanchist leader who is not, or at least not yet, an anti-Semite.
Outwardly secure and flourishing, the community is a fraction of its former size and dwindling. What troubles the minds of those who stay?