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Visual Arts Chagall, El Lissitzky, Malevitch: The Russian Avant-garde in Vitebsk (1918−1922) Angela Lampe
Nonfiction Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets Elissa Bemporad
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist…Gal Beckerman Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterI’m sure it comes as no surprise that Gal Beckerman, winner of the 2010 Jewish Book of the Year Award, is a finalist for this year’s… Naomi Firestone-Teeter February 10, 2012
Nonfiction Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 – 1939 Anna Shternshis
Nonfiction The Minsk Ghetto, 1941 – 1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism Barbara Epstein
Nonfiction Triumph Over Tyranny: The Heroic Campaigns That Saved 2,000,000 Soviet Jews Philip Spiegel; Natan Sharansky, fwd.
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Trotsky Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterNow in paperback, Robert Service’s Trotsky: A Biography Naomi Firestone-Teeter December 14, 2011