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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
Interview Interview: David Laskin by Elise CooperDavid Laskin’s book, The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century, is a gripping tale that traces the roots of the author’s… Elise Cooper February 25, 2014
Nonfiction The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union Yaacov Ro’i, ed.; George P. Schultz, epilogue
Nonfiction A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel Edmund Levin
