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Nonfiction Vodka Shot, Pickle Chaser: A True Story of Risk, Corruption, and Self-Discovery Amid the Collapse of the Soviet Union David A Kalis
Nonfiction Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman
Fiction Pioneers: A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s S. A. An-sky; Michael R. Katz, trans.
Essay Quotas: On Being Jewish in Pre-Revolutionary Russia and Soviet Russia Earlier this week, Ellen Litman wrote about Jewish holidays, her identity, and a search for feelings of belonging. Her new book, Mannequin Girl: A Novel, is… Ellen Litman March 20, 2014
Interview Interview: David Laskin by Elise CooperDavid Laskin’s book, The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century, is a gripping tale that traces the roots of the author’s… Elise Cooper February 25, 2014
Nonfiction The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union Yaacov Ro’i, ed.; George P. Schultz, epilogue
Nonfiction A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel Edmund Levin
Essay Red Love and Betrayed Ideals David Evanier has published seven books and has received the Aga Khan Fiction Prize and the McGinnis-Ritchie Short Fiction Award. He was the founding editor of the… David Evanier November 25, 2013
Essay Ron Rubin on Visiting the Soviet Union Yesterday, Peri Devaney wrote about working on the Postcript for her anthology, A Jewish Professor’s Political Punditry: Fifty-Plus Years of Published… Ron Rubin July 23, 2013
