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Nonfiction Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine: An Uncertain Ethnicity Zvi Gitelman
Nonfiction In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine Jeffrey Veidlinger
Interview Crypto-Jews and Autobiographical Animals: Part 3 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 10, 2014
Interview A Jewish-Russian Writer as New Englander: Part 2 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 9, 2014
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
Nonfiction Vodka Shot, Pickle Chaser: A True Story of Risk, Corruption, and Self-Discovery Amid the Collapse of the Soviet Union David A Kalis
Nonfiction Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman
Fiction Pioneers: A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s S. A. An-sky; Michael R. Katz, trans.
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
