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  • Aleksandr Askoldov

    The Commissar

    Series series KinoSputnik
    Filmed in 1966 and ’67, but kept from release for twenty years, The Commissar is unquestionably one of the most important and compelling films of the Soviet era. Based on a short story by Vasily Grossman, it tells of a female Red Army commissar who is forced to stay with a Jewish family near the frontlines of the battle between the Red and White Armies as she waits to give birth. The film drew the ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • PSALM

    A Novel/Reflection on the Four Plagues of the Lord

    Friedrich Gorenstein (1932–2002) stands as one of the most original and uncompromising voices in twentieth‑century Russian literature.His novels blend fiction, philosophy, religion, and politics in a way that is unmistakably recognisable as Russian literature, yet he tackles these very same issues as a Jewish writer, a Jewish thinker, and a fiercely independent Jewish voice.Long unavailable in ... Read more

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  • The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf

    Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines

    Series series The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
    An original investigation into the reading strategies and uses of books by Jews in the Soviet era.In The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf, Marat Grinberg argues that in an environment where Judaism had been all but destroyed, and a public Jewish presence routinely delegitimized, reading uniquely provided many Soviet Jews with an entry to communal memory and identity. The bookshelf was both a depository of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Holocaust across Borders

    Trauma, Atrocity, and Representation in Literature and Culture

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
    “Literature of the Holocaust” courses, whether taught in high schools or at universities, necessarily cover texts from a broad range of international contexts. Instructors are required, regardless of their own disciplinary training, to become comparatists and discuss all works with equal expertise. This books offers analyses of the ways in which representations of the Holocaust—whether in text, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine

    Series series Immigrant Worlds & Texts
    What was it like to work as a Jewish district attorney in provincial Soviet Ukraine in the post-Stalinist eras? What role did antisemitism and Holocaust memories play in solving and investigating the criminal cases? How does a detective’s mind work? The answers to these and many other fascinating questions are found in this book. Mikhail Goldis (1926-2020) worked as a detective and district ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Woody on Rye

    Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen

    Edited by Vincent Brook, Marat Grinberg ...
    Series series Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life
    Although Woody Allen’s films have received extensive attention from scholars and critics, no book has focused exclusively on Jewishness in his work, particularly that of the late 1990s and beyond. In this anthology, a distinguished group of contributors—whose work is richly contextualized in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, theater, and comedy—examine the schlemiel, Allen and women, the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Jewish Fantasy Worldwide

    Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile

    Series series Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile reaches beyond American fiction to reveal a spectrum of Jewish imagination. The chapters in this collection cover speculative works by Jewish artists and about Jewish characters from a broad range of national contexts, including post-Holocaust Europe, the Soviet Union, Israel, South America, French Canada, and the ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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    by Yuri Slezkine ...
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  • Everything Flows

    A New York Review Books OriginalEverything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. But in a novel that seeks to take in the whole tragedy of Soviet history, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Future of Nostalgia

    by Svetlana Boym ...
    **From an award-winning cultural theorist, the classic work on the intricate relationship between longing and belonging“A remarkable book… brilliant.”―New York Times**Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • THE MASTER AND MARGARITA

    50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    **A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century satirical masterpiece of censorship, political oppression, and fantasy, in a newly revised version of the acclaimed Pevear and Volokhonsky translationThe basis for the highest-grossing 18+ film in Russian history, coming to U.S. theaters at last in September 2026**Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]

    An Experiment in Literary Investigation

    “BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, this foundational work of Soviet history is Solzhenitsyn’s chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police and political repression that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.“The greatest and most powerful single ... Read more

    $11.99 USD