USSR
How Paul Robeson Learned Yiddish And Battled Fascism
Paul Robeson spoke Yiddish and sang beautifully in the language. His role in Yiddish literary history is, however, decidedly tragic.
The USSR Turned Against The Jews. But First, It Was A Yiddish Intellectual Haven.
Only naive observers believed that in the 1920s writers like Dovid Bergelson and Moyshe Kulbak returned to the USSR solely for ideological reasons.
How Paul Robeson Learned Yiddish And Battled Fascism
Paul Robeson spoke Yiddish and sang beautifully in the language. His role in Yiddish literary history is, however, decidedly tragic.
Grigory Kanovich’s Remarkable Love Song For a Lithuanian Shtetl
“Shtetl Love Song” belongs to the genre of homespun shtetl literature, which began with Mendele Mocher Sforim’s autobiography, “Shloyme Ben Khayems.”
WATCH: New Documentary Recounts The Search For Isaac Babel
The film “Finding Babel” portrays Andrei Malaev-Babel’s journey across the former USSR seeking traces of his grandfather, Isaac Babel.
How The Russian Revolution Of 1917 Transformed The Jewish People Forever
Why the Jews really turned to the Bolsheviks; how religious Jews stayed observant, and all about the secular Yiddishist experiment
This Year, Remember the World’s Poorest Jews
These Jews, many of whom are Holocaust survivors, did what they could to endure a Communist regime that discriminated relentlessly against them.
Beloved Singer Nechama Lifshitz Has Died
Performing Yiddish and Hebrew songs in the Soviet Union despite the ban against it, Nechama became a symbol of hope for the silenced Jews.
Remembering the Simple Life in Eastern Europe
On the 75th anniversary of Germany’s invasion of Russia, transcripts of interviews with Holocaust survivors help us remember the good along with the bad.
A New Literary Take On Soviet-Jewish Immigration
Think the Soviet-Jewish immigration experience has been chronicled to death? Think again: Yelena Akhtiorskaya’s new novel, ‘Panic in a Suitcase,’ feels unexpectedly fresh.