“Soviet Union”

This is the first book-length collection of Gorshman’s work to be translated into English, with only a handful of stories elsewhere.

Feb 19, 2024

With a focus on Russian Jewish race scientists, Mogilner traces how biology informed notions of Jewish difference mobilized by communal organizations and political activists in imperial Russia and the early Soviet period.

Jun 02, 2023

In this recently-published study, Senderovich challenges this fixed notion of the Soviet Jew, and recounts a complex prehistory of the Soviet Jew in the immediate context of interwar Soviet culture.

Feb 27, 2023

Sarah Biskowitz speaks with Lasha Shakulashvili about Yiddish in the South Caucusus region and his new role teaching Yiddish at at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU).

Feb 20, 2023

A melodramatic studio photograph illustrates the widening gap between the American and Soviet branches of the author's family.

Jan 18, 2023

This article looks at the wartime artistic and journalistic output of Dovid Bergelson and Dovid Hofshteyn to see how these writers appropriated Soviet terminology to paint Soviet Jews as the elder brothers in a worldwide Jewish family.

Nov 01, 2022

Apr 04, 2022

A selection of Osher Shvartsman's poems translated into English by Josh Price. 

Mar 23, 2022

Andrew Sloin guides us through a Soviet Yiddish pamphlet about the Scottsboro trial in the United States to reveal how this incident "became a prism to refract the long history of racial and class domination in the United States and a rallying cry to cultivate the spirit of internationalist socialist solidarity among Soviet readers."

Jun 25, 2021

Two poems by Yoysef Kerler

Nov 01, 2020