Magazine / Winter/Spring 2022 The Soviet Issue

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We Need New Stories of Post-Soviet Jews

A letter from the issue committee

Julia Alekseyeva, Tova Benjamin, Oksana Mironova, and Sasha Senderovich

Office Hours: Valeriya Nakshun

“If we focus on ourselves without making connections to a larger culture, our culture won’t survive.”

Bela’s Pilgrim

The story of my salvation

The Many Oblivions of Babi Yar

An ambitious creative team promised to make Kyiv home to the biggest and most impressive Holocaust museum in all of Europe. Before Russia attacked the city, scholars and artists had spent years in pitched disagreement over the vision of the memorial.

Post-Soviet Realism

Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi’s oeuvre looks frankly at the immigrant experience.

Immigrants From a Place That No Longer Exists

A conversation between post-Soviet millennial Jews on the left

History

The Soviet Jewry Movement, Revisited

Introduction: The Soviet Jewry Movement, Revisited

The Ambivalent Émigrés

Henry “Scoop” Jackson and the Jewish Cold Warriors

How Jewish Currents Covered the Soviet Jewry Movement

The Other Soviet Jewish Dissidents

The Hidden Joys of Soviet Jews

The Best Place in the World for Soviet Jews

The Soul of the Worker

A mid-century Chabad writer protests the “shidduch” between socialism and secularism.

Refusing to Bury the Living

Emigrating from the USSR to the US meant fleeing one system of mass incarceration for another.

Egina Manachova

Illustrated Essay

An exploration of Jewishness in contemporary Russia.

Victoria Lomasko

Office Hours: Valeriya Nakshun

“If we focus on ourselves without making connections to a larger culture, our culture won’t survive.”

Forthcoming Titles from Kindling Media

Kindling Media is delighted to announce the launch of a publishing imprint dedicated to the promotion of new writing by and for the Soviet diaspora.

We Need New Stories of Post-Soviet Jews

A letter from the issue committee

Julia Alekseyeva, Tova Benjamin, Oksana Mironova, and Sasha Senderovich

I’m white trash. Jew trash. Immigrant trash. Girl-boy trash. I’m a Casanova without a cause.

Yelena Moskovich

Prayer of a Man in Snow

“Today there is no bloodstain / on the snow; no one was shot; there’s just snow and snow”

I Need My Blood

“I will not lock my blood inside my heart, / neither will I shed my blood for naught”

Die Schreibblockade: Selections

“I have returned to the city of my dead. / It is the living who live there. I do not know them.”

Eugene Ostashevsky

An Object Not Meant to Object

On The Wayland Rudd Collection

Against Impossibility

Who benefits when we decide—or accept—that the splinters of history are “beyond repair”?

Helen Betya Rubinstein