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Interview David Bezmozgis on Turning His Short Story, “Natasha,” into a Film Ranen Omer-Sherman April 25, 2017
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Turned Inside Out Posted by Nat BernsteinI was so taken with the content of Steven Shankman’s Turned Inside Out: Reading the Russian Novel in Prison I almost failed to notice the book… Nat Bernstein December 1, 2016
Nonfiction 1915 Diary of S. A. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front S. A. An-sky; Polly Zavadivker, trans.
Essay On Writing Catastrophe: Jewish Chroniclers of War in 20th-Century Russia Polly Zavadivker is the editor and translator of the recently published 1915 Diary of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front. She is blogging… Polly Zavadivker April 18, 2016
Essay We Don’t Get to Choose Our Material Earlier this week, author Paul Goldberg wrote about the popularity of King Lear in midcentury Moscow and Yiddish theater. With the release of his novel The Yid, Paul… Paul Goldberg February 16, 2016
Essay Lear’s Warning Paul Goldberg first heard a Moscow version of the myth about Jews using blood for religious rituals when he was ten, in 1969. By the time he emigrated to the US in… Paul Goldberg February 15, 2016
Excerpt Moscow, 1953: The Czardom of Black Cats and Black Marias Excerpted from The Yid: A Novel by Paul Goldberg, published by arrangement with Picador.In the early morning of March 1, 1953, when Iosif Stalin collapsed at his… Paul Goldberg January 19, 2016
Visual Arts The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film Susan Tumarkin Goodman, Jens Hoffmann, Alexander Lavrentiev
Essay Photographing a Portrait of the American Jewish Community Earlier this week, Alina Bliumis wrote about the American-Russian-Jewish identity crisis and a photography series she shot, along with her partner and… Alina Bliumis May 13, 2015
Essay Addressing the American-Russian-Jewish Identity Crisis, Camera in Hand Alina Bliumis received her BFA from the School of Visual Art in 1999 and a diploma from the Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy… Alina Bliumis May 11, 2015
