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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
Nonfiction Jewish Luck: A True Story of Friendship, Deception, and Risky Business Meryll Levine Page and Leslie Levine Adler
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
