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russia & soviet union

Cover of I Named My Dog Pushkin (And Other Immigrant Tales): Notes From a Soviet Girl on Becoming an American Woman
Non­fic­tion
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
The Vix­en
Francine Prose
Recommended Reading

JBC Book­shelf: Kids Sum­mer Reading

JBC Staff
July 2, 2021
Cover of Doctor on Call: Chernobyl Responder, Jewish Refugee, Radiation Expert
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Doc­tor on Call: Cher­nobyl Respon­der, Jew­ish Refugee, Radi­a­tion Expert
Alla Shapiro
Cover of Natan Sharansky: Freedom Fighter for Soviet Jews
Non­fic­tion
Natan Sha­ran­sky: Free­dom Fight­er for Sovi­et Jews
Blake Hoena, Daniele Dickmann (Ilustrator)
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Fic­tion
Love Like Water, Love Like Fire
Mikhail Iossel
Interview

Sur­vival and Truth: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Anne Blankman

Emi­ly Schneider
February 10, 2021
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Visu­al Arts
Grief: The Biog­ra­phy of a Holo­caust Photograph
David Schneer
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A Promise of Sweet Tea: Mem­oirs of a Survivor
Pinchas Eliyahu Blitt
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Fic­tion
The Black­bird Girls
Anne Blankman
Essay

Write What You Know: How My Sovi­et Jew­ish Immi­grant Expe­ri­ence Final­ly Became a Book

Ali­na Adams
January 12, 2021
Poetry

Borscht at Vesel­ka on Sec­ond Avenue

H. E. Fisher
January 11, 2021
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Non­fic­tion
Jour­ney into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Mem­oir of the Gulag
 Julius Margolin, Stefani Hoffman (trans.)
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Non­fic­tion
Sur­vival on the Mar­gins: Pol­ish Jew­ish Refugees in the Wartime Sovi­et Union
Eliyana Adler
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Fic­tion
The Death of Her­cules: A DocuNovel
Daniel Yarosh
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