Soviet Jewry
The author took a recent journey to a Soviet mass gravesite where his great-grandfather is buried, and speaks about how it helped him understand Jewish and Soviet history.
While asserting that anti-Semitic persecutions usually don’t go too badly for the Jews.
Playing hardball.
An interview with Natan Sharansky.
Two new books bring Osip Mandelstam to an English-language audience.
Grigory Kanovich, 1929–1923.
Working in three cultures.
Killing the goose.
Jews were expected to transform their shtetl values, religious traditions, and bourgeois attitudes into muscular exemplars of humanity’s ideal, the New Soviet Man.
The beginnings of the Doctors’ Plot.
During World War II, nearly 40,000 Jews found their way to Bishkek.
And its importance for Jews.
Communist propaganda helped to form modern hatred of Israel.
A new documentary about the man who captured Ukraine’s Jewish music.