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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
- 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
- Soviet Jewry reading assignment February 6, 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
- Hiding out in the ‘burbs September 21, 2011
- When all is fleeting anyway, food becomes everything (Immigrant Decor Part 5) August 4, 2011
- The weight of an English chesterfield (Immigrant Decor Part 4) July 27, 2011
- Hindu gods, the Alberta way (Immigrant Decor Part 3) July 26, 2011
- A suitcase full of matroyshkas and salami (Immigrant Decor Part 2) July 15, 2011
- Eugina Gelbelman: A Foreign Woman by Sergei Dovlatov is wonderful. I...
- Daniel: Thanks for your warp speed reaction :-) Btw, forg...
- Lea Zeltserman: Thanks for the heads up Daniel. Should be working ...
- Daniel: Hi Lea, It appears that you've posted an invali...
- zoltan vamos: I guess I was the sole immigrant in the group of c...
- Lea Zeltserman: Now, now, we don't all have metal detectors...
- Lea Zeltserman: I think that's true to an extent, but I also know ...
- Lea Zeltserman: Hi Anna, loved the post. I still prefer being in t...
- Vicki: We consciously made a decision to move into the bu...
- zoltan vamos: I live in 'burbs country; I mean, in a place that ...
- Anna Tarkov: This reminds me of my own move to the suburbs here...


