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    Soviet Jewry

    Cover of Triumph Over Tyranny: The Heroic Campaigns That Saved 2,000,000 Soviet Jews
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    Tri­umph Over Tyran­ny: The Hero­ic Cam­paigns That Saved 2,000,000 Sovi­et Jews
    Philip Spiegel; Natan Sharansky, fwd.
    Cover of Shush!: Growing up Jewish Under Stalin
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    Shush!: Grow­ing up Jew­ish Under Stalin
    Emil Draitser
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    Book Cov­er of the Week: Trotsky

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterNow in paper­back, Robert Ser­vice’s Trot­sky: A Biography
    Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
    December 14, 2011
    Cover of Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire
    Non­fic­tion
    Jew­ish Pub­lic Cul­ture in the Late Russ­ian Empire
    Jeffrey Veidlinger
    Cover of Natasha: And Other Stories
    Fic­tion
    Natasha: And Oth­er Stories
    David Bez­mozgis
    Cover of Absurdistan
    Fic­tion
    Absur­dis­tan
    Gary Shteyngart
    Cover of When They Come For Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
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    When They Come For Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Strug­gle to Save Sovi­et Jewry
    Gal Beck­er­man
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    Book Cov­er of the Week: When They Come for Us We’ll Be Gone

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterThe paper­back edi­tion of Gal Beck­er­man​‘s When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Strug­gle to Save Sovi­et…
    Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
    September 9, 2011
    Cover of Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924-1951
    Non­fic­tion
    Dreams of Nation­hood: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Com­mu­nists and the Sovi­et Biro­bidzhan Project, 1924 – 1951
    Henry Felix Srebrnik
    Cover of Swimming in the Daylight: An American Student, a Soviet-Jewish Dissident, and the Gift of Hope
    Non­fic­tion
    Swim­ming in the Day­light: An Amer­i­can Stu­dent, a Sovi­et-Jew­ish Dis­si­dent, and the Gift of Hope
    Lisa C. Paul
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    Lenin’s Jew­ish Question
    Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 978-0-300-15210-4
    Essay

    Gal Beck­er­man Accepts 2010 Jew­ish Book of the Year Award

    On Wednes­day, March 9th, Gal Beck­er­man accept­ed the 2010 Jew­ish Book of the Year Award for When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Strug­gle to Save Sovi­et…
    Gal Beck­er­man
    March 11, 2011
    Essay

    My Oth­er Baby

    On Mon­day, Gal Beck­er­man wrote about bar­be­cu­ing with hijack­ers. His first book, When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Strug­gle to Save…
    Gal Beck­er­man
    September 15, 2010
    Essay

    Bar­be­cu­ing with the Hijackers

    Gal Beck­er­man​‘s first book, When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Strug­gle to Save Sovi­et Jew­ry, is now avail­able. Gal, a staff writer at…
    Gal Beck­er­man
    September 13, 2010
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