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Soviet Union

A statue of Stalin stands out on an abstract background of blue and pink.
Posted inOff the Shelf

Jewish writers with Soviet roots have deep stories to tell

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman June 15, 2021June 15, 2021
Matzah travels on the production line of the Tiferet HaMatzot factory in Dnepro, Ukraine, Dec. 8, 2014. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inHolidays

Jews in the former Soviet Union eat pounds of matzah per person — the most in the world — every year. Here’s why.

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA March 29, 2021March 29, 2021
The Grand Choral Synagogue in St. Petersburg, Russia (Photo/Wikimedia-Alex 'Florstein' Fedorov CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

21 years old in the USSR — that’s when I became a Jew

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz October 16, 2019
Jewish organizations during the May Day demonstration at Marsovo Pole in Petrograd, Russia, 1919. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center)
Posted inNews

100 years later: What was the role of Jews in the 1917 Russian Revolution?

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz November 7, 2017March 19, 2018
Natan Sharansky speaking in front of the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco, Feb. 6, 1987 (Photo/Tom Wachs)
Posted inOpinion

Remembering days of protest at soon-to-close S.F. Russian consulate

Doug Kahn by Rabbi Doug Kahn September 1, 2017September 1, 2017
two elderly people in a simple dwelling
Posted inUncategorized, Opinion

The other ‘greatest generation’ — elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union

David Schizer by David Schizer May 2, 2017May 2, 2017
Bookshelf of old copies of J. Previous names of this publication have included Emanu-El and Jewish Bulletin. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inJewish Life

Opposition to college quotas (1950); Soviet dentistry (1980)

by J. Staff February 9, 2017December 17, 2018

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