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    russia & soviet union

    Cover of Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union
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    Sur­vival on the Mar­gins: Pol­ish Jew­ish Refugees in the Wartime Sovi­et Union
    Eliyana Adler
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    The Death of Her­cules: A DocuNovel
    Daniel Yarosh
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    The Last Green Valley
    Mark T. Sullivan
    Essay

    A ​‘Lega­cy of Blood’ Explored with Elis­sa Bemporad

    Elis­sa Bemporad
    July 20, 2020
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    Chil­dren’s
    A Boy Is Not a Bird
    Edeet Ravel, Pam Comeau (illus.)
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    Fic­tion
    Cilka­’s Journey
    Heather Mor­ris
    Cover of Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women's Voices from the Gulag
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    Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Wom­en’s Voic­es from the Gulag
    Monika Zgustova; Julie Jones, trans.
    Cover of Putin's Hybrid War and the Jews: Antisemitism, Propaganda, and the Displacement of Ukrainian Jewry
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    Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews: Anti­semitism, Pro­pa­gan­da, and the Dis­place­ment of Ukrain­ian Jewry
    Sam Sokol
    Interview—From the Journal

    ‘You Shouldn’t Go around Hug­ging Bears’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Kei­th Gessen

    Rebec­ca Schuman
    April 20, 2020
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    2019 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Auction

    February 19, 2020
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    Sav­age Feast: Three Gen­er­a­tions, Two Con­ti­nents, and a Din­ner Table (a Mem­oir with Recipes)
    Boris Fish­man
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    Klotsvog
    Margarita Khemlin (auth.), Lisa Hayden (trans.), Lara Vapnyar (fwd.)
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    The Nest­ing Dolls: A Novel
    Ali­na Adams
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    Young Heroes of the Sovi­et Union: A Mem­oir and a Reckoning
    Alex Hal­ber­stadt
    Excerpt

    Lit­tle Roost­er: A Sto­ry from David Bez­mozgis’s New Collection

    Ten years after my grand­fa­ther died, I found myself sort­ing through a shal­low plas­tic bin that held the accu­mu­lat­ed doc­u­men­ta­tion of his life. 

    David Bez­mozgis
    May 8, 2019
    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
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