Soviet Union
A correspondence from the revived gulag.
Mahmoud Abbas’s dissertation, and the “Zionologists” behind it.
Israel’s moment.
The first Western diplomat to equate Zionism with racism.
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.
One cheer for the former dictator.
Communist propaganda helped to form modern hatred of Israel.
Opponents of Moscow’s interests are labeled “Nazis”—even if they’re Jews.
The Chabad writer joins us to discuss how the Jewish communities of Ukraine have adapted to the war.
“Even when you walk through the valley of death, you are still making moral choices.”
The Jewish leader recalls his upbringing in Soviet Russia and explains what inspired him to return to the land from which his family fled.
Downplaying Soviet brutality.
So long as you engage in doublethink, you can’t be truly free.