From the American Midwest to the Jewish-Soviet Crossroads
How Graduate Fellow Cyrus Rodgers found his way from a Midwest childhood to the complex work of Jewish-Soviet writers like Isaac Babel.
Arkady Raikin & the Politics of Jewish Comedy
What can the career of a Russian theater legend teach us about Soviet Jewish identity in the period of Israel's establishment?
Jews in Soviet Cinema of the 1920s-1940s
Cinema is a visual document of the transformation of attitudes towards Jews in the Soviet Union.
St. Petersburg: New Pride, Old Prejudice?
Grad student Veronica Muskheli muses on museums and their role in Jewish cultural continuity.
Focusing Her Lens on Folklore
How grad student Veronica Muskheli found her way to the White Sea and Russian-Jewish ethnography.
Zion in the Far East
Lenin and Stalin believed that national, cultural consciousness was a necessary part of the Marxist historical timeline