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  • Author Gary Shteyngart smiles winningly at the audience after reading a manuscript copy of his memoir, "Little Failure"

VIDEO | Gary Shteyngart reflects on immigration, memory, and Russian Jews in the 2018 Stroum Lectures

Author Gary Shteyngart, in conversation with Professor Sasha Senderovich, shares stories from his memoir "Little Failure."

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2020-09-01T11:10:32-07:00August 3rd, 2018|Categories: Our Events, Video|Tags: Immigrants, Literature, Russia, Soviet Union, Stroum Lectures|0 Comments
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  • Gary gesticulates, holding his arms wide. He and Sasha are seated in the front of Kane Hall, with a small table stacked with books between them

How Gary Shteyngart’s Russian Jewish past informs his literary present

Novelist Gary Shteyngart's Soviet-inflected humor is more relevant than ever in Trump's America.

By Denise Grollmus|2018-09-05T12:19:35-07:00June 11th, 2018|Categories: Arts & Culture, Our Events|Tags: Culture, Literature, Russia, Soviet Union|0 Comments
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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.

By Cyrus Rodgers|2018-08-03T15:19:06-07:00February 4th, 2014|Categories: Arts & Culture, Personal History|Tags: Graduate Fellows, Graduate Student Writing, Literature, Russia, Soviet Union, Student Writing|0 Comments
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Jews in Soviet Cinema of the 1920s-1940s

Cinema is a visual document of the transformation of attitudes towards Jews in the Soviet Union.

By Anatoliy Klots|2018-08-03T15:09:31-07:00March 11th, 2013|Categories: Arts & Culture|Tags: Culture, Film, Graduate Fellows, Graduate Student Writing, Jewish Identity, Russia, Soviet Union, Student Writing|0 Comments
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Zion in the Far East

Lenin and Stalin believed that national, cultural consciousness was a necessary part of the Marxist historical timeline

By Sarah Zaides|2017-09-04T22:43:03-07:00December 19th, 2011|Categories: Global Judaism|Tags: Russia, Sarah Zaides, Soviet Union, Yiddish|0 Comments
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