The Jewish attempt to cancel Israel and Jewish peoplehood

For years, the late Harvard professor Svetlana Boym refused to acknowledge her Soviet self. After her cancer diagnosis, she finally looked backward.

Enjoying ozone gas and trying to avoid politics at Georgia’s Borjomi Palace, which once served generations of Soviet workers

How an alluring radical nihilism seduces believers into forms of extremism

How Soviet anti-Semitism buried Jewish scientists

‘The New York Times’ and the creepy personal and ideological logic of public confessions

Newly edited travel journals from 1965 show the poet infatuated and disillusioned with communist Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, and Poland

In Memory of R. Adin Even Israel Steinsaltz

Seventy-seven years ago today, a landmark court case on Nazi war crimes began in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar. A Jewish poet in uniform tried to report on it in verse. His struggles challenged the Stalinist doctrine of universalizing the Soviet dead and obfuscating Jewish victimhood.

What can American statue-topplers learn from Europe?

What lessons can we learn from them today?

Yevgenia Albats was called ‘kikeface’ as a kid in the Soviet Union and went on to become an intrepid reporter in Moscow. Visiting the U.S. recently, she spoke with Tablet about the state of Russian politics and what it’s like for Jews there today.

How Russian Jewish socialists found their cause in Communism, in an excerpt from ‘The Spy Who Changed History’

How change swept across central Europe 30 years ago this fall

Self-mutilation as a Jewish cultural strategy and the sad history of the Yevsektsiya