Soviet Union

Book cover juxtaposed with Chinese Communist Party symbol

Chinese censors ban printing of Hasidic woman’s memoir due to ‘anti-communist’ content

“The Queen of Cleveland,” by a Jewish woman who lived in the Soviet Union, triggered extra caution among censors amid Russia’s war on Ukraine.

A middle-aged couple on a bus in Israel in a movie still.

In ‘Golden Voices,’ Russian movie dubbers reinvent themselves in Israel, to hilarious effect

The award-winning Israeli movie, set in 1990, follows a middle-aged couple from the Soviet Union as they adjust to their new home, and status, in Tel Aviv.

George Blake, a former MI6 officer, enters a car in Moscow, Russia on June 28, 2001.(Yuri Martianov/Kommersant Photo/AFP via Getty Images)

George Blake, British spy for Soviet Union, dies in Moscow at 98

Blake did not identify as a Jew, but his Jewish background played a major role in his life.

Major-General Matvey Weinrub, left, and writer Konstantin Simonov on the Hallesche-Tor-Brücke Bridge over the Landver Canal in Berlin, Germany in May 1945. (From the collection of the Moscow Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center)

Global

Moscow’s Jewish museum uploads previously unseen photos of Berlin’s Soviet occupiers

United States

Brandeis acquires archives of Jewish group that supported Soviet Jews

Obituaries

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

Global

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

Culture

This Orthodox Jewish Prizefighter Wrote a Kids’ Book

Global

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

The Soviet Jewish Writer Whose Novel Was Banned for 200 Years

Culture

The Soviet Jewish Writer Whose Masterpiece Was Banned for 200 Years

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