Soviet Union

Brandeis acquires archives of Jewish group that supported Soviet Jews

Project Kesher was established in 1989 to help Jews who chose to remain in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.

By Penny Schwartz October 25, 2019 1:33 pm

Richard Pipes, historian of Russia and Reagan aide, dies at 94

The scholar led opposition to arms-control talks and accommodation with the Soviet Union.

May 18, 2018 7:06 am

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, whose ‘Babi Yar’ exposed anti-Semitism, dies at 84

Yevtushenko said he wrote the poem after visiting the site of the mass killings near Kiev and not finding anything to memorialize the tragedy that occurred there.

April 2, 2017 1:13 pm

This Orthodox Jewish Prizefighter Wrote a Kids’ Book

By Avishay Artsy

from Jewniverse

Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish Holocaust hero, executed in Soviet prison, diaries reveal

August 7, 2016 11:00 am

The Soviet Jewish Writer Whose Novel Was Banned for 200 Years

The Soviet Jewish Writer Whose Masterpiece Was Banned for 200 Years

By Zachary Solomon

from Jewniverse

Russian Jews built this city on rock and roll (and klezmer)

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 1, 2016 4:15 pm

A holiday is born: Red Army vets promote ‘Rescue Day of European Jewry’

By Julie Wiener May 22, 2014 5:21 pm

The Greatest Soviet Jewish Artist You Never Heard Of

By Zachary Solomon

from Jewniverse

“Goodbye, Boys!” & Forbidden Soviet Jewish Film

By Olga Gershenson

from Jewniverse

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Soviet Union

Brandeis acquires archives of Jewish group that supported Soviet Jews

Richard Pipes, historian of Russia and Reagan aide, dies at 94

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, whose ‘Babi Yar’ exposed anti-Semitism, dies at 84

This Orthodox Jewish Prizefighter Wrote a Kids’ Book

Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish Holocaust hero, executed in Soviet prison, diaries reveal

The Soviet Jewish Writer Whose Masterpiece Was Banned for 200 Years

Russian Jews built this city on rock and roll (and klezmer)

A holiday is born: Red Army vets promote ‘Rescue Day of European Jewry’

The Greatest Soviet Jewish Artist You Never Heard Of

“Goodbye, Boys!” & Forbidden Soviet Jewish Film

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