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    Soviet Jewry

    Interview

    A Fic­tion­al Mod­el of the For­mer USSR: Part 1 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 8, 2014
    Essay

    It’s the First Week of June. Do You Know Where Your Fam­i­ly His­to­ry Is?

    Boris Fish­man immi­grat­ed from the USSR at nine. He stud­ied Russ­ian lit­er­a­ture at Prince­ton, was on staff at The New York­er, co-wrote the US Senate’s Hur­ri­cane…
    Boris Fish­man
    June 2, 2014
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    Non­fic­tion
    Mas­ter­ing the Art of Sovi­et Cook­ing: A Mem­oir of Food and Longing
    Anya Von Bremzen
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    Vod­ka Shot, Pick­le Chas­er: A True Sto­ry of Risk, Cor­rup­tion, and Self-Dis­cov­ery Amid the Col­lapse of the Sovi­et Union
    David A Kalis
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    Fic­tion
    The Betray­ers
    David Bez­mozgis
    Cover of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir
    Non­fic­tion
    A Back­pack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vod­ka: A Memoir
    Lev Golinkin
    Essay

    Quo­tas: On Being Jew­ish in Pre-Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Rus­sia and Sovi­et Russia

    Ear­li­er this week, Ellen Lit­man wrote about Jew­ish hol­i­days, her iden­ti­ty, and a search for feel­ings of belong­ing. Her new book, Man­nequin Girl: A Nov­el, is…
    Ellen Lit­man
    March 20, 2014
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    Fic­tion
    Man­nequin Girl: A Novel
    Ellen Lit­man
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Jew­ish Move­ment in the Sovi­et Union
    Yaacov Ro’i, ed.; George P. Schultz, epilogue
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    Fic­tion
    A Replace­ment Life
    Boris Fish­man
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    Non­fic­tion
    Leav­ing Rus­sia: A Jew­ish Story
    Maxim D. Shrayer
    Essay

    Ron Rubin on Vis­it­ing the Sovi­et Union

    Yes­ter­day, Peri Devaney wrote about work­ing on the Post­cript for her anthol­o­gy, A Jew­ish Professor’s Polit­i­cal Pun­dit­ry: Fifty-Plus Years of Pub­lished…
    Ron Rubin
    July 23, 2013
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    Non­fic­tion
    Becom­ing Sovi­et Jews: The Bol­she­vik Exper­i­ment in Minsk
    Elis­sa Bemporad
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    Book Cov­er of the Week: Stal­in’s Barber

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterWhat hap­pens when a Jew­ish bar­ber leaves Alba­nia for a bet­ter life in Stal­in­ist Rus­sia and becomes Stal­in’s per­son­al…
    Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
    February 1, 2013
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    Cha­gall, El Lis­sitzky, Male­vitch: The Russ­ian Avant-garde in Viteb­sk (1918−1922)
    Angela Lampe
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    Fic­tion
    Cas­tle of Con­crete: A Novel
    Katia Raina
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