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    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
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Jew­ish Move­ment in the Sovi­et Union
    Yaacov Ro’i, ed.; George P. Schultz, epilogue
    Cover of A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
    Non­fic­tion
    A Child of Chris­t­ian Blood: Mur­der and Con­spir­a­cy in Tsarist Rus­sia: The Beilis Blood Libel
    Edmund Levin
    Cover of A Replacement Life
    Fic­tion
    A Replace­ment Life
    Boris Fish­man
    Cover of Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story
    Non­fic­tion
    Leav­ing Rus­sia: A Jew­ish Story
    Maxim D. Shrayer
    Essay

    Red Love and Betrayed Ideals

    David Evanier has pub­lished sev­en books and has received the Aga Khan Fic­tion Prize and the McGin­nis-Ritchie Short Fic­tion Award. He was the found­ing edi­tor of the…
    David Evanier
    November 25, 2013
    Essay

    Ron Rubin on Vis­it­ing the Sovi­et Union

    Yes­ter­day, Peri Devaney wrote about work­ing on the Post­cript for her anthol­o­gy, A Jew­ish Professor’s Polit­i­cal Pun­dit­ry: Fifty-Plus Years of Pub­lished…
    Ron Rubin
    July 23, 2013
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    City of Rogues and Schnor­rers: Rus­si­a’s Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa
    Jarrod Tanny
    Cover of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk
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    Becom­ing Sovi­et Jews: The Bol­she­vik Exper­i­ment in Minsk
    Elis­sa Bemporad
    Cover of A Forgotten Land: Growing Up In The Jewish Pale, Based on the Recollections of Pearl Unikow Cooper
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    A For­got­ten Land: Grow­ing Up In The Jew­ish Pale, Based on the Rec­ol­lec­tions of Pearl Unikow Cooper
    Lisa Cooper
    Cover of Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets
    Non­fic­tion
    Lega­cy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Rit­u­al Mur­der in the Lands of the Soviets
    Elis­sa Bemporad
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    Poet­ry
    Deaf Repub­lic
    Ilya Kaminsky
    Cover of Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
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    Vasi­ly Gross­man and the Sovi­et Century
    Alexandra Popoff
    Cover of The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater
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    The Rise of the Mod­ern Yid­dish Theater
    Alyssa Quint
    Cover of The Many Names for Mother
    Poet­ry
    The Many Names for Mother
    Julia Kolchin­sky Dasbach 
    Cover of The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement.
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    The Jew­ish Dark Con­ti­nent: Life and Death in the Russ­ian Pale of Settlement.
    Nathaniel Deutsch
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