Stalin made the Shoah a taboo subject.

Pinḥas Kahanovitsh, the Concealed One.

A rabbi’s son recalls the revival of Judaism in the Russian capital.

Disillusionment with Communism went hand in hand with an embrace of Jewishness.

Thanks to a small group of dedicated rabbis.

What moved the USSR was that persecuting Jews became very expensive.

An apartment is emptied of its possessions—and suddenly filled with life.

And its “love bridge.”

The late president helped bring Jews to the land of Israel.

The paradoxes of liberation and renewed persecution.

Lev Ginzburg.

Dovid Bergelson’s Yiddish masterpiece and his untimely death.

Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate.

The prisoner of Zion remembers his first meeting with the senator.