Gershkovich, a New York native and the son of Soviet Jewish refugees to the United States, is a Moscow correspondent with the Wall Street Journal. (JTA) — Shayndi Raice, a Wall Street Journal reporter ...

(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 ...

Senderovich’s book may be read as an attempt to challenge Yuri Slezkine’s broadly acclaimed work The Jewish Century, which sought to explain the rise and disproportionate prominence of Jews among the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soviet First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov, in a statement made to newspapermen escorting him on his present visit to the United States, said that synagogues are not forcibly closed in the Soviet Union, ...

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 bill - and subsequent reporting - speaks extensively about the "genocide" of Soviet prisoners, the concentration camps, ...