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Essay My Wallenberg Education in Budapest, Stockholm, and Moscow Earlier this week, Alan Lelchuk wrote about meeting Daniel Pagliansky, Wallenberg’s KGB interrogator. Lelchuk is the author of the acclaimed novels, American… Alan Lelchuk May 6, 2015
Essay Remaining Russian Through Food This week, Boris Fishman — the author of A Replacement Life, just released in paperback from HarperCollins—blogs for The Postscript on one of his favorite paragraphs… Boris Fishman January 27, 2015
Nonfiction Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia Simon Rabinovitch
Essay Notes of Forgiveness: Part Two of a Two-Part Blog Yesterday, Maxim D. Shrayer wrote about young Jews lost in Leningrad. His latest book is Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story. He has been blogging here this week for… Maxim D. Shrayer November 25, 2014
Essay Young Jews Lost in Leningrad: Part One of a Two-Part Blog Maxim D. Shrayer is a bilingual writer and a professor at Boston College. Shrayer’s latest book is Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story, a finalist for… Maxim D. Shrayer November 24, 2014
Interview Interview: Yelena Akhtiorskaya by Nat BernsteinYelena Akhtiorskaya was recently named one of the National Book Foundation’s 2014 5 Under 35 Honorees. Her debut novel Panic in a Suitcase was… Nat Bernstein October 1, 2014
Nonfiction Jewish Luck: A True Story of Friendship, Deception, and Risky Business Meryll Levine Page and Leslie Levine Adler
Nonfiction Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine: An Uncertain Ethnicity Zvi Gitelman
Nonfiction In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine Jeffrey Veidlinger
Interview Crypto-Jews and Autobiographical Animals: Part 3 of a 3‑Part Conversation This week father and son, neighbors in Brookline, Massachusetts and longtime collaborators, David Shrayer-Petrov and Maxim D. Shrayer discuss Dinner with Stalin… Maxim D. Shrayer July 10, 2014
Interview A Jewish-Russian Writer as New Englander: Part 2 of a 3‑Part Conversation This week father and son, neighbors in Brookline, Massachusetts and longtime collaborators, David Shrayer-Petrov and Maxim D. Shrayer discuss Dinner with Stalin… Maxim D. Shrayer July 9, 2014
Interview A Fictional Model of the Former USSR: Part 1 of a 3‑Part Conversation This week father and son, neighbors in Brookline, Massachusetts and longtime collaborators, David Shrayer-Petrov and Maxim D. Shrayer discuss Dinner with Stalin… Maxim D. Shrayer July 8, 2014
Essay It’s the First Week of June. Do You Know Where Your Family History Is? Boris Fishman immigrated from the USSR at nine. He studied Russian literature at Princeton, was on staff at The New Yorker, co-wrote the US Senate’s Hurricane… Boris Fishman June 2, 2014
