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Essay We Don’t Get to Choose Our Material Earlier this week, author Paul Goldberg wrote about the popularity of King Lear in midcentury Moscow and Yiddish theater. With the release of his novel The Yid, Paul… Paul Goldberg February 16, 2016
Essay Lear’s Warning Paul Goldberg first heard a Moscow version of the myth about Jews using blood for religious rituals when he was ten, in 1969. By the time he emigrated to the US in… Paul Goldberg February 15, 2016
Excerpt Moscow, 1953: The Czardom of Black Cats and Black Marias Excerpted from The Yid: A Novel by Paul Goldberg, published by arrangement with Picador.In the early morning of March 1, 1953, when Iosif Stalin collapsed at his… Paul Goldberg January 19, 2016
Visual Arts The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film Susan Tumarkin Goodman, Jens Hoffmann, Alexander Lavrentiev
Essay Photographing a Portrait of the American Jewish Community Earlier this week, Alina Bliumis wrote about the American-Russian-Jewish identity crisis and a photography series she shot, along with her partner and… Alina Bliumis May 13, 2015
Essay Addressing the American-Russian-Jewish Identity Crisis, Camera in Hand Alina Bliumis received her BFA from the School of Visual Art in 1999 and a diploma from the Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy… Alina Bliumis May 11, 2015
Essay My Wallenberg Education in Budapest, Stockholm, and Moscow Earlier this week, Alan Lelchuk wrote about meeting Daniel Pagliansky, Wallenberg’s KGB interrogator. Lelchuk is the author of the acclaimed novels, American… Alan Lelchuk May 6, 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
Nonfiction Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia Simon Rabinovitch
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
