Soviet Jewry

Two new books bring Osip Mandelstam to an English-language audience.

Donald Rayfield
May 9 2023 12:01AM

Grigory Kanovich, 1929–1923.

Elena Guritanu and Elie Petit
April 4 2023 12:01AM

Working in three cultures.

Maxim Shrayer
Feb. 22 2023 12:01AM

Jews were expected to transform their shtetl values, religious traditions, and bourgeois attitudes into muscular exemplars of humanity’s ideal, the New Soviet Man.

Sept. 12 2022 12:01AM

The beginnings of the Doctors’ Plot.

Sept. 2 2022 12:01AM

During World War II, nearly 40,000 Jews found their way to Bishkek.

Levi Bridges
Aug. 30 2022 12:01AM

And its importance for Jews.

Gary Dreyer
Aug. 24 2022 12:01AM

Communist propaganda helped to form modern hatred of Israel.

Avner Yeshurun
June 17 2022 12:01AM

A new documentary about the man who captured Ukraine’s Jewish music.

Andrew Silow-Carroll
March 24 2022 12:01AM

The Jewish community will be reimbursed for hundreds of buildings that were expropriated during World War II.

Emma Bubola
Feb. 17 2022 12:01AM

Jewish refugees in “Little Odessa” contend with the legacy of anti-Semitism.

Raina Weinstein
Feb. 16 2022 12:01AM

“All the resources of a superpower cannot isolate a man who hears the voice of freedom.”

Dec. 30 2021 12:01AM