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Soviet Jews
April 5, 2018, 3:03 am
Chef tears down culinary Iron Curtain to make Jewish-Russian food great again
Though initially embarrassed by her family's immigrant fare, today James Beard-nominated Bonnie Frumkin Morales sells a surprising amount of herring at her restaurant Kachka
By
Rich Tenorio
November 8, 2017, 5:14 am
Moscow museum gives the full picture of Jewish role in 1917 Russian Revolution
While even Vladimir Putin has repeated some myths, Jews were highly represented in establishing Soviet rule -- and they didn't have much choice in the matter
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
November 6, 2017, 9:57 pm
Before the Bolsheviks, this man abolished Russia’s Pale of Settlement
100 years after the Russian Revolution, scholars celebrate Alexander Kerensky, the architect of a document securing equal rights for the country's Jews
By
Julie Masis
September 24, 2017, 1:27 pm
The KGB arrested me and launched my career
Those police did warn me not to write about my time in the Soviet Union....
By
Howard Kaplan
July 29, 2017, 6:59 am
Noteworthy piano virtuoso trumpets his Jewish heritage
World-renowned pianist Evgeny Kissin holds three passports, but the one that defines him has a menorah on it
By
Jenni Frazer
May 19, 2017, 8:15 pm
Israeli filmmaker chronicles parents’ failed attempt to hijack a Soviet plane
Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov's new documentary 'Operation Wedding' uncovers overlooked chapter in Soviet Jews' fight for freedom
By
Julie Masis
April 14, 2017, 10:38 pm
Why 189,000 Soviet Jews fled to Italy rather than the Promised Land
New documentary examines those Russian Jews, who with only $96 in their pockets, bided their time in Europe until allowed into the American Goldene Medina
By
Julie Masis
April 1, 2017, 2:44 pm
Babushka knows best and other universal truths of the Russian-Jewish experience
With short viral videos, a Facebook group gets thousands of laughs when US-born bilingual youth poke fun at their esteemed Russian-speaking elders
By
Julie Masis
March 28, 2017, 10:08 am
Passed over by Nazis and Communists, remnants of Ukraine’s last shtetl prepare to celebrate
Numbering just 50 today, the Jews of Bershad have managed to protect their 200-year-old clay synagogue through successive despotic regimes
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
February 11, 2017, 10:39 am
At 90 and with stories to tell, this British impresario still presents cultural legends
Lilian Hochhauser, historic promoter of Russian artists in Britain, continues to toil in her latest project: a three-week run from the acclaimed Mariinsky dance company
By
Jenni Frazer
February 10, 2017, 9:00 pm
When it comes to supporting the US president, former Soviet Jews say Israel trumps all
Due to his perceived strength, the Russian-speaking community has long-backed Donald Trump -- but there's one red line he mustn't cross
By
Cathryn J. Prince
January 28, 2017, 9:29 am
Former Soviet Jews protest Trump’s refugee ban
'US must not turn our backs on the human beings fleeing violence and persecution like our families did when we left the FSU'
By
JTA
October 10, 2016, 10:27 pm
Author opens the Pandora’s box of Russia’s curious autonomous Jewish ghost town
While Chaim Weitzman and Nahum Sokolow were in Britain campaigning for a Zionist state, the Bolsheviks were busy implementing their own vision -- in the USSR
By
JP O’ Malley
August 25, 2016, 11:27 am
Russian Jews posthumously honor Elie Wiesel
Holocaust activist and Nobel laureate penned 1966 book that inspired movement to free Soviet Jewry
By
JTA
June 22, 2016, 4:10 pm
A glimpse into Azerbaijan’s hidden all-Jewish town
Even as its future is uncertain, the unique north Caucasus community of Krasnaya Sloboda is experiencing a religious revival
By
Lee Gancman
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