In an environment where Judaism had been all but destroyed, and a public Jewish presence routinely delegitimized, reading provided many Soviet Jews with an entry to communal memory and identity. The ...

(RNS) — A chance encounter with the son of one of the great Jewish moral heroes of the last half century. Few people think of him now, and therein lies the story. “Yes,” he replied. “My father was ...

(JNS) You shouldn’t judge Soviet Jewish homes by their book covers, yet their bookshelves often contained the only clues that they were Jewish homes. The overwhelming majority of post-World War II ...

More than three decades after the collapse of the USSR, the Jews of the Soviet Union continue to be somewhat of a mystery to American Jews, characterized by stereotypes many of us heard growing up.

The Soviet remaking of the Pale Jews. The trials and tribulations of a tumultuous period. Jewish children in the Soviet Union’s youth movement in Minsk. Established in 1791 as the exclusive zone where ...

Demonstrations in the street, hunger strikes, political strong-arming, and countless tears of woe and grit were the hallmarks of the movement to free Jews in the Soviet Union from crushing and ...

A six-point Declaration of Rights for Russian Jewry was adopted here today at the concluding session of the two-day meeting of the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry. It was signed by the ...