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News Jewish? Soviet? Ukrainian? Russian? The war has American Jews asking, ‘Who am I?’
A long history of antisemitic violence and exclusion in the former Soviet Union complicates loyalties for expats in the United States.
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Opinion Putin is no match for my Jewish Ukrainian babushka
With a little Krav Maga training, my grandmother is a force to be reckoned with.
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Opinion Shocked by Russian war crimes? My father never forgot them
What Russians are doing to Ukrainians echoes what Soviet soldiers did to concentration camp survivors
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Opinion I am a Ukrainian Jew. I have lost my mother to Russian disinformation
My mother has been brainwashed by Russian propaganda. Aside from a brief phone call during the first week of the war, I haven’t been communicating with her. It’s too painful to expend energy on reasoning with her while my people are getting killed at the front lines. I choose to spend that time and energy…
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Opinion Soviet Jews built the start-up nation. Israel should rush to welcome Ukrainian refugees today
Over 2 million Ukrainians have fled their country in the 14 days since the aggressive Russian invasion began, creating the fastest refugee crisis in modern history. Ukraine’s neighbors — such as Poland, Hungary, Moldova and Belarus — have been the first destination for most of these refugees, as the rest of the world watches in…
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Forverts in English The ideological journey of the Forverts in the first half of the 20th century
Read this article in Yiddish. Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Gennady Estraikh Academic Studies Press, $119, 354 pp In the history of American journalism, the Forverts is a genuine outlier. Over the course of the first half of the last century, the…
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News An L.A. museum puts the saga of Soviet Jewry on display
In the dark days of the Cold War, photographer Bill Aron, the son of a Russian émigré to Philadelphia, traveled to the Soviet Union. In Moscow, Leningrad, and Minsk, he took portraits of refuseniks— Soviet Jews who were demanding their freedom— as well as photographs of the Jewish synagogues and those worshipping there. Starting Nov….
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