USSR

Protests shake Iran: The US must choose its next move wisely - opinion

Tehran’s streets erupt with defiance. Will Washington support change or repeat past mistakes with Iran’s regime?

 FILE PHOTO: Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, in Istanbul, Turkey, October 2, 2022.
SOVIET WRITER-JOURNALIST Ilya Ehrenburg with Soviet soldiers, 1942. His daughter found a copy of the manuscript or ‘black book’ in her father’s archive in 1967. ‘The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry’ was published in Kiev in 1991.

Roots of the Holocaust: Fascist barbarism and vicious 1920s anti-Bolshevik propaganda - book review

 NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (R) and Leonid Brezhnev wave from Lenin’s Tomb in Moscow after announcing that Khrushchev was resigning as first secretary of the Communist Party and Brezhnev was taking over the role, 1964.

The enigma of Nikita Khrushchev: Unravelling the Soviet leader's views on Israel, Zionism

 NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV during a meeting with Kiev residents, after the liberation of the city from the Nazi occupation, Nov. 30, 1943.

Khrushchev and the Jews: The attitude of Stalin's successor to Soviet Jewry


'The Dissident': A tale of a Jewish refusenik's deal with the KGB - review

The Dissident illuminates the human rights movement and the struggle of Soviet Jews to get permission to move to Israel,

 RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin (R) meets with former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger at the Kremlin in Moscow, 2017.

'The History of Birobidzhan': The Jewish land on the Russia-China border - review

The history of Brobidzhan, a town established in the Soviet Union almost 100 years ago, reminds us of the many other ideological rivals to a Hebrew republic in the Land of Israel.

 SIGNS OF Jews in Birobidzhan in 2012.

'Restoring memory': Israeli artist's journey is shown in Tel Aviv

Ira Eduardovna, born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (then part of the former Soviet Union), is an accomplished Israeli artist who has won numerous awards and held exhibitions in the US, Israel, and Europe.

 ‘THE IRON Road,’ film still.

The last Yiddish artist: Work of Anatoly Kaplan on display in Jerusalem

Who was Anatoly Kaplan and why has he been honored with this retrospective in a city he would never get to visit? 

 Anatoly Kaplan and his wife, Yevgenia.

Return to Dushanbe: A family's story of survival after the Holocaust

I wanted to “return” to Dushanbe as a representative of my family (the non-espionage practicing ones) to say (metaphorically), “Here I am. We survived.”

 Map of Tajikistan showing the capital, Dushanbe

Landscapes of his life

Victor Rabinovich has never regretted moving to Israel, although his landscapes have changed completely.

 IN PORTUGAL, 2020.

'How the Soviet Jew Was Made': When Jews migrated to Russia's cities - review

In this book, literature comes first, history is mixed in second. Thus, discussion of Isaac Babel, David Bergelson and Moyshe Kulbak acquires a panoramic perspective

 AN EXPERT at The State Museum of Political History of Russia in St. Petersburg adjusts a tag on a bust of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. Some Jews in the book used art to try to promote their Soviet bonafides.

Stalin and the creation of Israel: The Soviet tyrant’s inadvertent Zionism - opinion

While Stalin’s antisemitism was all-too-real, during the perilous 1940s, in two conflicts, Stalin found himself the Jewish people’s benefactor.

 SUPPORTERS OF the Russian Communist Party attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the death of Soviet leader Josef Stalin, in Moscow’s Red Square, in March.

My grandfather's USSR experience is mimicked in modern times - opinion

He faced the same rhetoric we do now on campus.

 A SUPPORTER of the Russian Communist Party stands next to a portrait of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, during a May Day rally in Moscow last year.

75 years old is a dangerous age for Israel - opinion

Israel has entered its greatest crisis after three generations. This happened to the USSR, Turkey, India and China – what happened to them, and can Israel survive?

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG addresses the ‘Jerusalem Post’ conference at the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem, last week. Herzog says he is worried whether the state will reach 80 years.