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Items with the tag:

russia & soviet union

Cover of How the Soviet Jew Was Made
Non­fic­tion
How the Sovi­et Jew Was Made
Sasha Senderovich
Cover of So They Remember: A Jewish Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine
Non­fic­tion
So They Remem­ber: A Jew­ish Fam­i­ly’s Sto­ry of Sur­viv­ing the Holo­caust in Sovi­et Ukraine
Maksim Goldenshteyn
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Fic­tion
A Vis­it to Moscow
Anna Olswanger, adapted from a story by Rabbi Rafael Grossman, Yevgenia Nayberg (Illustrator)
Essay

The Ques­tion of ​‘A Vis­it to Moscow’

Anna Olswanger
May 23, 2022
Essay

Fam­i­ly Secrets Root­ed in Latvia

Shelly Sanders
May 2, 2022
Cover of Atomic Anna
Fic­tion
Atom­ic Anna
Rachel Baren­baum
Essay

Be Patient in Judg­ment: Pirkei Avot and the Cher­nobyl Disaster

Rachel Baren­baum
April 4, 2022
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Non­fic­tion
The Genius Under the Table: Grow­ing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
Eugene Yelchin
Fiction—From the Journal

Shaare Emu­nah

Steven Volynets
January 25, 2022
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Chil­dren’s
A Boy Is Not a Ghost
Edeet Rav­el
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Fic­tion
At the End of the World, Turn Left
Zhanna Slor
Cover of Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour: Memories of Soviet Russia
Non­fic­tion
Like a Drop of Ink in a Down­pour: Mem­o­ries of Sovi­et Russia
Yele­na and Gali­na Lembersky
Cover of I Named My Dog Pushkin (And Other Immigrant Tales): Notes From a Soviet Girl on Becoming an American Woman
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I Named My Dog Pushkin (And Oth­er Immi­grant Tales): Notes From a Sovi­et Girl on Becom­ing an Amer­i­can Woman
Margarita Gokun Silver
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Poet­ry
Refusenik: poems
Lynn Mel­nick
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Fic­tion
A Sky Full of Song
Susan Lynn Meyer
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Beat the Devils
Josh Weiss
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