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Nonfiction Empire Jews: Jewish Nationalism and Acculturation in 19th and Early 20th Century Russia Brian Horowitz
Nonfiction When They Come For Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry Gal Beckerman
Nonfiction Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century Pauline Wengeroff; Shulamit S. Magnus, trans. with notes and commentary
Nonfiction Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924 – 1951 Henry Felix Srebrnik
Nonfiction Swimming in the Daylight: An American Student, a Soviet-Jewish Dissident, and the Gift of Hope Lisa C. Paul
Essay The Origin of Russian for Lovers Marina Blitshteyn is the author of the new poetry chapbook Russian for Lovers. She will be blogging all week for the Visiting Scribe.It was my first semester in the… Marina Blitshteyn April 4, 2011