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Essay Be Patient in Judgment: Pirkei Avot and the Chernobyl Disaster Rachel Barenbaum April 4, 2022
Nonfiction Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour: Memories of Soviet Russia Yelena and Galina Lembersky
Nonfiction I Named My Dog Pushkin (And Other Immigrant Tales): Notes From a Soviet Girl on Becoming an American Woman Margarita Gokun Silver
Nonfiction Doctor on Call: Chernobyl Responder, Jewish Refugee, Radiation Expert Alla Shapiro
Nonfiction Natan Sharansky: Freedom Fighter for Soviet Jews Blake Hoena, Daniele Dickmann (Ilustrator)
Interview Survival and Truth: A Conversation with Anne Blankman Emily Schneider February 10, 2021
Essay Write What You Know: How My Soviet Jewish Immigrant Experience Finally Became a Book Alina Adams January 12, 2021
Nonfiction Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews: Antisemitism, Propaganda, and the Displacement of Ukrainian Jewry Sam Sokol
Essay—From the Journal Papa Stalin and the Happy Family On Communist Yiddish children’s books in the Soviet Union and United States. Miriam Udel April 29, 2019
