Persecuted by the KGB, a Jewish master soared to new heights in the West
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Opinion As a new Trump administration begins, I’m looking to this Soviet Jewish dissident for guidance
If you're alarmed as I am by the new president's first actions in office, the rights-based dissident movement has lessons to share
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Yiddish World The concert where Paul Robeson was warned not to sing in Yiddish
When Soviet government leaders invited the singer to give a concert, he did something they didn't expect.
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Yiddish World A high-quality Soviet Yiddish literary magazine is being digitized
The online issues of "Sovetish Heymland" will be a great resource for scholars and ordinary readers of post-war Yiddish literature
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Yiddish World A Yiddish word I never expected to see on a license plate
For secular Jewish socialists in prewar Poland, 'doikayt' wasn't just a word, but a bold political statement
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Books In this vision of a dystopian future, a Jewish student on the run learns that artists make the best fascists
In Zachary C. Solomon's debut novel, a young man joins a utopian society hoping to prove himself as an architect — but soon learns he's the subject of a sinister experiment
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Culture A viral post demonizing Zionist doctors sounds eerily like a Soviet antisemitic conspiracy theory
During the doctors' plot, Stalin targeted the country's Jews
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Books Surviving the Holocaust, only to endure the brutality of life under Stalin
In 'Two Roads Home,' Daniel Finkelstein urges the reader to remember both Nazi and Soviet crimes against humanity
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