The Patriots.
Every fall, ex-Soviet Jews descend on the coast to forage.
And what they say about the Soviet Union.
A genius for historical contradictions.
Peretz Markish and the Schneersons.
In 1928, a “Jewish autonomous region” was set up in the far east to provide a home for Soviet Jewry. But, as a new book describes, it was no solution at all.
Giving a voice to the living and the dead.
Jan Peerce in Moscow.
An anniversary in more ways than one.
Laying the groundwork for decades of Soviet anti-Semitism.
A humorous and poignant picture of the author’s hometown.
It was early 1987, and Jewish emigration was at a virtual standstill. What better way than a drama of victory over ancient enemies to sustain our own hope of escape?