For two decades, one of the worst massacres of the Holocaust was all but forgotten
What Was This Russian Operative Doing at a Tiny American College?
The son of a famous performer, Kirill Chenkin fought in the Spanish Civil War and was recruited by Soviet intelligence prior to joining the faculty of Black Mountain College. He later became a ‘refusenik’ spokesman…
How Did This Jewish Scholar Defend the Cossacks and Survive the Soviets?
The complicated and all-but-forgotten legacy of Saul Borovoi
The Ad Campaign That Told the Other Story of Soviet Jewry in 1999
In the late 1990s, advertising executive Gary Wexler visited Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union that had suddenly rediscovered their own religious and national identity in the wake of the collapse of communism. These ads captured some of the powerful moments and images of that period in Jewish history…
A Brief Blinken Family History: From Pereiaslav to DC and Back
US secretary of state’s immigrant ancestor was a trailblazing Yiddishist, as well as a carpenter and masseuse
Manmade Climate Change 150 Years Ago? In Yiddish?!
1871 article: “Hardly anybody knows that war affects the weather strongly and causes heavy rain falls, strong winds, thunder and lightning.”
Crotchety Old Academic Reflects on the Great Russian ‘Wave’
As a young grad student 30 years ago, Prof. Brian Horowitz was an active witness to history
“It Could Never Happen Here”: Before the Bolsheviks Came
Most in Nikolaevsk-on-Amur had felt safe in one of Russia’s most isolated corners
A ‘High Holiday Prayer’ to the Czar
After he freed the serfs, Alexander II was virtually deified by one leading Jewish newspaper
The Jewish Heroes and Heroines of Victory Day
These Jewish soldiers took part in the liberation of Europe from the clutches of Nazi Germany
