Soviet Union
The Last Stage.
The (fictional) Jewish prisoner who brought about Solzhenitsyn’s conversion.
Stalin made the Shoah a taboo subject.
The story of David Karr.
The author of the recent Mosaic essay drops by to draw a picture of a now-vanished world of flamethrowers, washed-up ideologues, and true believers.
I am fortunate to have witnessed, and been offered, not only real madness but also real, and not delusional, goodness.
Airing the complicity of some American Jews with Soviet criminality is essential to the honor and the reputation of the Jewish people.
Dressing up anti-Semitism as anti-Zionism.
It brought more allies and more citizens.
A rabbi’s son recalls the revival of Judaism in the Russian capital.
But notoriously some, like Morton Sobell, were both. For the Jewish community, their highly visible profile was a constant source of tension and embarrassment.
Which ignores the rash of attacks on Orthodox Jews.
The case of Eric Hobsbawm.
With the recent death of the unrepentant spy, his story, along with that of other American Jews steeped in Communism, can finally be told.
