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Luda Shuster

Luda Shuster

Luda Shuster, a former business analyst, lives in Palo Alto with her husband and relishes being a grandmother to five widely scattered grandchildren. Daughter Sasha lives in Mountain View with her husband and daughter.

Luda Shuster's parents in the Soviet Union, ca. 1950
Posted inOpinion

A lifetime of anti-Jewish propaganda — from Stalinist Russia to Kanye West

Luda Shuster by Luda Shuster February 7, 2023February 7, 2023

By 1952, seven years after Hitler’s defeat, Stalin was consolidating his own version of a final solution to the Jewish problem. According to him, class struggle was becoming more brutal, […]

Russian-style Easter eggs. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inOpinion

My journey from skeptical Soviet Jew to member of the tribe

Luda Shuster by Luda Shuster August 31, 2020August 31, 2020
Luda Shuster (right) with daughter Sasha, former husband Volodya and mother-in-law Anya in Moscow 1979.
Posted inPassover

Why that night in Moscow in 1979 was different from all other nights

Luda Shuster by Luda Shuster April 8, 2020

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