A professor of Russian and Jewish studies joins us to talk about the tenuous situation of Russian Jews and their leaders.
The Israeli journalist and author of our November essay joins us to talk about the lives featured in his work.
A fictional peddler reflects on the imponderability of anti-Semitism.
The women’s self-recorded experiences are utterly disparate, but both offer a potent antidote to any sentimental nostalgia for life in the age of Sholom Aleichem.
To ex-KGB officers, Jews are extremely powerful.
A memoirist sheds light on the shtetl’s social conflicts.
Jacob Dinezon’s The Dark Young Man.
Once a bustling, but unliterary, Jewish community.
The first great Jewish catastrophe of the 20th century.
It brought more allies and more citizens.
A rabbi’s son recalls the revival of Judaism in the Russian capital.
And the disturbing efforts to preserve Harbin’s “Jewish heritage.”
Gorenstein is best-known for his film scripts, written for Andrei Tarkovsky and others. Now, recently published in English for the first time, his own voice can be heard.