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Books
- On Russian tchotchkes and Soviet design - Comments (5)
- Chernobyl, 25 years and counting - Comments (0)
- So much to envy: Reading about North Korea - Comments (0)
- A Q&A on the Soviet Jewry movement with Gal Beckerman - Comments (4)
- Soviet gulags just not sexy enough for the zeitgeist - Comments (0)
- Three generations, three languages: A former refusenik on language and identity - Comments (0)
Food
- Soviet Georgian soup is reclaimed as Shabbat meal - Comments (0)
- Still keeping your coffee in the freezer? Tut, tut - Comments (2)
- Study says… “Blame mom!” - Comments (0)
- Blah, blah, authenticity, blah, blah, shtetl - Comments (5)
- Refusenik Screening Part 4: The Dinner, or Sausage Nostalgia - Comments (4)
- Twitter highlights the banal in food - Comments (0)
- No frills, but plenty of multiculturalism - Comments (0)
- Sometimes, a chocolate bar is just a chocolate bar - Comments (0)
- Food police: Whither the voice of reason? - Comments (5)
Gender
- An open letter on so-called parenting privilege - Comments (0)
- Study says… “Blame mom!” - Comments (0)
- Blah, blah, authenticity, blah, blah, shtetl - Comments (5)
- Only Bad Mommies Take Vacations - Comments (0)
- Naming and shaming sexual harassers at work: yay or nay? - Comments (2)
- Links (or Letting Others Do the Thinking) - Comments (1)
- Circumcision and the irrational moments of life - Comments (2)
- Dictator Baby photo series explores nature of evil and motherhood - Comments (2)
- Women! Chefs! Sexism! - Comments (4)
Immigrant Decor Series
- When all is fleeting anyway, food becomes everything (Immigrant Decor Part 5) - Comments (0)
- The weight of an English chesterfield (Immigrant Decor Part 4) - Comments (0)
- Hindu gods, the Alberta way (Immigrant Decor Part 3) - Comments (0)
- A suitcase full of matroyshkas and salami (Immigrant Decor Part 2) - Comments (1)
- The faux Persian rug, crowning glory of every Russian home (Immigrant Decor Part 1) - Comments (2)
- Immigrant household decor: Your stories wanted! - Comments (2)
- Do Russian and Soviet memorabilia an immigrant make? - Comments (4)
- On Russian tchotchkes and Soviet design - Comments (5)
Interviews
- A Q&A on the Soviet Jewry movement with Gal Beckerman - Comments (4)
Jewish
- The Big Jewcy 2011 – I’ve been listified - Comments (0)
- Lego and Monopoly: What’s history got to do with it? - Comments (1)
- Dictator Baby photo series explores nature of evil and motherhood - Comments (2)
- Holocaust meets social media - Comments (8)
- Roman Vishniac’s photography: The impoverished life that wasn’t quite - Comments (2)
Link Round-ups
- Monday Links – The Bill Cosby is a genius edition - Comments (0)
- Monday Links – The some people have real problems and some people have baby carrots edition - Comments (2)
- Monday Links – Russia loves Raymond, nobody loves cannibalism edition - Comments (0)
- Monday links – The super Soviet, super Jew-y edition - Comments (0)
- Monday Links – Socialist Cuba beats out Park Slope Food Co-op edition - Comments (0)
- Monday Links – The skinny cans for skinny gals edition - Comments (0)
Random
- The Potemkin effect: Colour photos from the black-and-white days - Comments (0)
- Soviet Jewry reading assignment - Comments (4)
- An open letter on so-called parenting privilege - Comments (0)
- The Big Jewcy 2011 – I’ve been listified - Comments (0)
- Chernobyl, 25 years and counting - Comments (0)
- Outsourcing the Rumour Mill - Comments (0)
- Cossack dance-off, circa 1941 - Comments (1)
- A good old US penny - Comments (0)
- Go Soviet at the CNE - Comments (0)
Soviet/Russian Jewry
- The April issue of Soviet Samovar is now out! - Comments (1)
- Apparently, there are words I still don’t know in English. Like apron. - Comments (8)
- There was probably a KGB file with my name on it - Comments (0)
- The loneliness of crossing oceans - Comments (1)
- Apparatchiks with typewriters, or, in the Soviet archives - Comments (1)
- The Soviet Samovar – February issue is out! - Comments (0)
- Not my perestroika: Shades of might have beens - Comments (0)
- The Soviet Samovar! First issue! Wednesday! - Comments (0)
- Live, in the kitchen, from Moscow - Comments (1)
Technology
- The Potemkin effect: Colour photos from the black-and-white days - Comments (0)
- On Russian tchotchkes and Soviet design - Comments (5)
- Tech blogs learn from women’s magazines - Comments (2)
- Outsourcing the Rumour Mill - Comments (0)
- Radio days of the revolution: Goodbye Soviet Russia, hello North Korea - Comments (0)
- The digital afterlife and the lies we’ll leave behind - Comments (0)
- The revolution is not being tweeted - Comments (1)
- Or are some things off-limits to games? - Comments (0)
- Summer camp is for history games (mud optional) - Comments (0)



