Soviet Jewry
The author took a recent journey to a Soviet mass gravesite where his great-grandfather is buried, and speaks about how it helped him understand Jewish and Soviet history.
Jews were expected to transform their shtetl values, religious traditions, and bourgeois attitudes into muscular exemplars of humanity’s ideal, the New Soviet Man.
A newly translated memoir of the gulag should (but probably won’t) remind those who still flirt with Communism what exactly they’re endorsing.
When Jews preferred Nazi ghettos to Soviet equality of rights.
Yuri Orlov refused to hide.
Even though the author tries to downplay it, a new book shows how deeply rooted anti-Semitism was in Soviet ideology.
In the mega-shtetl of Berdichev.
And his firm stand against anti-Semitism.
The struggle for Jewish dignity that once sparked Jewish pride in millions is slipping from memory.
Meet Barbara Oberman.
In the event Israel goes to war with Iran, whose side will he be on?
Reflections on the anniversary of the celebrated refusenik’s release.
To ex-KGB officers, Jews are extremely powerful.
Even chief rabbis have obligations to the Jewish people.