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When British Socialists Supported Israel as an Anti-Imperialist Project

Even when Labor tried to nip it in the bud.

John Strawson
Sept. 15 2020 12:01AM

In Russia, Anti-Semitism Has Long Been the Opiate of the Intellectuals

Even though the author tries to downplay it, a new book shows how deeply rooted anti-Semitism was in Soviet ideology.

Gary Saul Morson
Aug. 25 2020 12:01AM

The Battle of Warsaw and Its Mixed Legacy for Polish Jewry

The miracle on the Vistula and the internment of Jewish soldiers.

Joshua D. Zimmerman
Aug. 20 2020 12:01AM

The Story of Holocaust Refugees in Tehran Teaches a Lesson in Jewish Solidarity

Strong enough to break through post-Zionist cynicism.

Allan Arkush
July 6 2020 12:01AM

The Jewish Writer Who Made a Name for Himself in Both Yiddish and Hebrew

Zalman Shneour.

Mikhail Krutikov
May 13 2020 12:01AM

In America and Israel, the Story of Soviet Jewry Is Being Rapidly Forgotten

The struggle for Jewish dignity that once sparked Jewish pride in millions is slipping from memory.

Izabella Tabarovsky
April 13 2020 12:01AM

What Natan Sharansky Knows That Bernie Sanders Doesn’t

Remembering the truth about Jews and Communism.

Meir Soloveichik
March 30 2020 12:01AM

How Israel Helped the U.S. Win the Cold War

It transmitted vital intelligence about Soviet military technology.

Shammai Siskind
March 6 2020 12:01AM

To Whitewash Soviet Crimes, Moscow Uses the Jews as a Prop in Its Version of European History

Putin visits Yad Vashem.

Izabella Taborovsky
Jan. 28 2020 12:01AM

How Yiddish Children’s Literature Flourished in the Early Days of the Soviet Union—Only to Have Its Creative Spirit Crushed

From art to crude propaganda.

Rokhl Kafrissen
Dec. 18 2019 12:01AM

How Iran Became a Home to Jewish Refugees from Soviet-Occupied Poland

And the Land of Israel for Polish Gentiles.

Mikhal Dekel
Nov. 1 2019 12:01AM

How the Non-Jewish Director of the First-Ever Holocaust Movie Resisted Communist Pressure to Write Jews Out of the Story

The Last Stage.

Ofer Aderet
Sept. 17 2019 12:01AM

God and Man in the Gulag

The (fictional) Jewish prisoner who brought about Solzhenitsyn’s conversion.

Gary Saul Morson
Aug. 23 2019 12:01AM

The Lost Yiddish Songs of the Soviet Holocaust, Revived

Stalin made the Shoah a taboo subject.

Aron Heller
Aug. 1 2019 12:01AM
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