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    Soviet Jewry

    Cover of The Yid: A Novel
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    The Yid: A Novel
    Paul Gold­berg
    Cover of Open Up the Iron Door: Memoirs of a Soviet Jewry Activist
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    Open Up the Iron Door: Mem­oirs of a Sovi­et Jew­ry Activist
    Rabbi Avraham Weiss
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    Visu­al Arts
    From Self­ie to Groupie
    Alina and Jeff Bliumis
    Interview

    Meet Sami Rohr Prize Final­ist Boris Fishman

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterIf you’re a loy­al fol­low­er of the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil (and you obvi­ous­ly are), then you’re def­i­nite­ly already aware of Boris…
    Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
    February 16, 2015
    Interview

    Meet Sami Rohr Prize Final­ist Yele­na Akhtiorskaya

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterYes­ter­day we spent a lit­tle time get­ting to know Sami Rohr Prize final­ist Ken­neth Bon­ert, author of The Lion Seek­er. Today we hear…
    Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
    February 12, 2015
    Essay

    Remain­ing Russ­ian Through Food

    This week, Boris Fish­man — the author of A Replace­ment Life, just released in paper­back from Harper­Collins—blogs for The Post­script on one of his favorite para­graphs…
    Boris Fish­man
    January 27, 2015
    Recommended Reading

    Book Cov­er of the Week: A Replace­ment Life, in Paperback

    Post­ed by Nat BernsteinJBC Net­work author and Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award final­ist Boris Fish­man recent­ly announced the release of a paper­back edi­tion of his…
    Nat Bern­stein
    January 23, 2015
    Essay

    Notes of For­give­ness: Part Two of a Two-Part Blog

    Yes­ter­day, Max­im D. Shray­er wrote about young Jews lost in Leningrad. His lat­est book is Leav­ing Rus­sia: A Jew­ish Sto­ry. He has been blog­ging here this week for…
    Max­im D. Shrayer
    November 25, 2014
    Essay

    Young Jews Lost in Leningrad: Part One of a Two-Part Blog

    Max­im D. Shray­er is a bilin­gual writer and a pro­fes­sor at Boston Col­lege. Shrayer’s lat­est book is Leav­ing Rus­sia: A Jew­ish Sto­ry, a final­ist for…
    Max­im D. Shrayer
    November 24, 2014
    Interview

    Inter­view: Yele­na Akhtiorskaya

    by Nat Bern­steinYele­na Akhtiorskaya was recent­ly named one of the Nation­al Book Foun­da­tion’s 2014 5 Under 35 Hon­orees. Her debut nov­el Pan­ic in a Suit­case was…
    Nat Bern­stein
    October 1, 2014
    Interview

    Inter­view: David Bezmozgis

    Don­ald Weber
    September 29, 2014
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    Jew­ish Luck: A True Sto­ry of Friend­ship, Decep­tion, and Risky Business
    Meryll Levine Page and Leslie Levine Adler
    Cover of Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine: An Uncertain Ethnicity
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    Jew­ish Iden­ti­ties in Post­com­mu­nist Rus­sia and Ukraine: An Uncer­tain Ethnicity
    Zvi Gitelman
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    Fic­tion
    Lena Fin­kle’s Mag­ic Bar­rel: A Graph­ic Novel
    Anya Ulinich
    Interview

    Cryp­to-Jews and Auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal Ani­mals: Part 3 of a 3‑Part Conversation

    This week father and son, neigh­bors in Brook­line, Mass­a­chu­setts and long­time col­lab­o­ra­tors, David Shray­er-Petrov and Max­im D. Shray­er dis­cuss Din­ner with Stal­in…
    Max­im D. Shrayer
    July 10, 2014
    Interview

    A Jew­ish-Russ­ian Writer as New Eng­lan­der: Part 2 of a 3‑Part Conversation

    This week father and son, neigh­bors in Brook­line, Mass­a­chu­setts and long­time col­lab­o­ra­tors, David Shray­er-Petrov and Max­im D. Shray­er dis­cuss Din­ner with Stal­in…
    Max­im D. Shrayer
    July 9, 2014
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