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Soviet & Jewish & Stateless
Ordinary people making extraordinary decisions... an unnamed mass pouring out of all corners of the USSR, like ants on a map, converging onto Vienna, then Rome, and then spilling out again into the West. What was it like to realize that freedom was a mere two-hour flight away, the distance from Moscow to Vienna?
More about my Soviet Jewry Project ...»
- Holocaust meets social media April 30, 2010
- Hiding out in the ‘burbs September 21, 2011
- Apparently, there are words I still don’t know in English. Like apron. March 8, 2012
- Hating Mother’s Day is as damaging as sentimentalizing it May 10, 2010
- Food police: Whither the voice of reason? June 18, 2010
- On Russian tchotchkes and Soviet design June 6, 2011
- Blah, blah, authenticity, blah, blah, shtetl November 25, 2010
- Women! Chefs! Sexism! May 11, 2010
- Refusenik Screening Part 4: The Dinner, or Sausage Nostalgia August 31, 2010
- A Q&A on the Soviet Jewry movement with Gal Beckerman September 23, 2010
- Do Russian and Soviet memorabilia an immigrant make? June 23, 2011
- The April issue of Soviet Samovar is now out! April 21, 2012
- Apparently, there are words I still don’t know in English. Like apron. March 8, 2012
- There was probably a KGB file with my name on it March 7, 2012
- The loneliness of crossing oceans March 2, 2012
- Apparatchiks with typewriters, or, in the Soviet archives February 28, 2012
- The Potemkin effect: Colour photos from the black-and-white days February 12, 2012
- The Soviet Samovar – February issue is out! February 8, 2012
- Soviet Jewry reading assignment February 6, 2012
- Not my perestroika: Shades of might have beens December 15, 2011
- The Soviet Samovar! First issue! Wednesday! October 3, 2011
- Live, in the kitchen, from Moscow September 26, 2011
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kcmeesha: awesome compillation (and not only because you lin...
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slim's tuna provider: i don't have word lapses, by i have a lot of troub...
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Lea Zeltserman: I hadn't thought of it that way. But now I'm remem...
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Lea Zeltserman: Or a linguist. I was even younger than you - not e...
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Lea Zeltserman: It must be some remnants of childhood that we've g...
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thebookmistress: It *is* weird. I think maybe other people just bla...
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Anna Tarkov: The same exact thing happens to me though I can't ...
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Rachel: The older I get, the harder it is for me to uneart...
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Annie: When I was younger, I would also speak in a mix of...
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Jacob: Funny story. Just spent a government subsidised tw...
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Eugina Gelbelman: A Foreign Woman by Sergei Dovlatov is wonderful. I...



