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Russian Jewry

A professor of Russian and Jewish studies joins us to talk about the tenuous situation of Russian Jews and their leaders.

Dec. 9 2022 12:01AM

The Israeli journalist and author of our November essay joins us to talk about the lives featured in his work.

Nov. 19 2020 12:27AM

A fictional peddler reflects on the imponderability of anti-Semitism.

Sholem Aleichem
Sept. 21 2020 12:01AM

The Gunzburgs.

Josh Meyers
May 19 2020 12:01AM

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.

Feb. 25 2020 12:01AM

To ex-KGB officers, Jews are extremely powerful.

Yevgenia Albats
Feb. 4 2020 12:01AM

A memoirist sheds light on the shtetl’s social conflicts.

Doba-Mera Medvedeva and Alice Nakhimovsky
Oct. 3 2019 12:01AM

Jacob Dinezon’s The Dark Young Man.

Rokhl Kafrissen
Aug. 29 2019 12:01AM

Once a bustling, but unliterary, Jewish community.

July 26 2019 12:01AM

The first great Jewish catastrophe of the 20th century.

July 8 2019 12:01AM

It brought more allies and more citizens.

Sever Plocker
June 11 2019 12:01AM

A rabbi’s son recalls the revival of Judaism in the Russian capital.

Benyamin Goldschmidt
June 11 2019 12:01AM

And the disturbing efforts to preserve Harbin’s “Jewish heritage.”

April 23 2019 12:01AM

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.

March 5 2019 12:01AM