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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)