Stoked to share my recent talk on the org's outreach to Soviet Jews in the late 80s/early 90s, late-Cold War Jewish philanthropy, and the Joint's quest for a "global Jewish strategy" in the USSR!
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Ph.D. candidate | Soviet/post-Soviet Jewish culture and politics | assoc. editor | formerly , and others.
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Exceptional reporting on a series of tough subjects: WhatsApp founder Jan Koum, the American Jewish philanthropic ecosystem, and Chabad in the FSU. Thanks for the chance to provide some historical context!
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Read @AsafShaloo's full investigation — including previously unreported data on Koum’s charitable giving — here: jta.org/2022/06/15/uni
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Fab reminder: In FSU "🇺🇦 ... inaugurated a new chapter in the Jewish history of the region, reminding us that history evolves and should not always be written through the specter of the violence of the past." (See dominant Jewish news narrative.)
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Fearing a backlash, immigrants from the former Soviet Union are starting to reject the label, "Russians," in an effort to distance themselves from Putin's attack on Ukraine. ‘People are going to start hating Russians,' an anxious immigrant told me.
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This is where we’re at: a Russian investment expert pulls out a bottle on live television to toast the end of the country’s capital markets and says he’s going back to working as a dress-up Santa Claus
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Jewish charities have seen an influx of funding from Russia’s Jewish billionaires in recent years. Many of these donors are now being slapped with sanctions over their ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. THREAD:
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Deeply insightful / look at the vicissitudes of American Jewish activism in the FSU + Russian-speaking Jewish comm. building in the US/FSU. In other words, why Ukraine matters to US Jewry beyond ancestral ties (tho that's imp't too):
Forgive me some hope in these dark days, but I was inspired by what Zelensky has come to represent and that it's a Jew who is filling this role.
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From a colleague: Shachrit prayers this morning in Odessa. 🙌
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Wonderful and loving tribute to Nate Geller, a force in recalibrating US Jewry's relationship to Soviet/FSU Jewish communities in the late '80s/early '90s.
Primary Source, a podcast by Jewish Studies has dropped ep. 3, on Hannah Arendt and Eichmann in Jerusalem! Mazel tovs to @lilyrosesloane , and our crack Arendt voice actor . Check out the episode here:
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A powerful reminder of the courage of Russian Jews and the tragedy of their life under the Soviet regime - an exhibit has just opened in , with the support from . Read the review in and visit the exhibition in LA.
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Listen now to the Primary Source podcast series episode on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,
featuring AJS member guests Steven Zipperstein & & host
Listen now: primarysourcepodcast.com/?i=1
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Appreciative to #JewishStudies for making space for this non-academic to weigh-in. This podcast is value add for those looking to understand The Protocols antisemitic influence on U.S. politics today.
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Thrilled to share the latest episode of Primary Source, by #JewishStudies at @Stanford, on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion! Check it out at podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the + primarysourcepodcast.com + wherever you listen (1/6)
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And on the relationship between the Protocols and George Soros conspiracy theories (5/6)
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on the role of the Protocols in online hate communities (4/6)
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Thrilled to share the latest episode of Primary Source, by #JewishStudies at , on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion! Check it out at podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the + primarysourcepodcast.com + wherever you listen (1/6)
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“It’s almost like the Cold War never ended.” Many former Soviet Union immigrants living in the U.S. bond over Donald Trump on social media, but there are limits to free speech. 2020 Post-Graduate Reporting Fellow () reports.
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K. Magazine, the first publication entirely devoted to the 1.5 million Jews currently living in Europe, launches today in French and English.
Cool project to keep an eye on.
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Russian Jews/Navalny content at last. Subtle reminder in this piece that Chabad isn't the only Jewish constituency in Russian society. "Divided" though?
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Excellent bonus episode of with on four years covering Trump — reminding us all about the cost of lies and the importance of truth.
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“The president embarked on this kind of systematic effort to get people to stop believing the people who actually knew what they were talking about.” @ddale8 reflects on four years of fact-checking the U.S. president: cbc.ca/1.5883211
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Amongst other issues with the 1776 Report, this press release title feels like just a stone's throw from "Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."
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My latest piece takes a look back on last year’s Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan and what Azerbaijan’s victory means for the wider region. I travelled there with support from the
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How Azerbaijan won the Karabakh war, and how Russia won the peace — if it can keep it, @SimonOstrovsky writes in @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/reportage/how-
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Spent the last couple of months interviewing Soviet Jewish activists who were part of these extraordinary events. Here’s their story.
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Last-minute Hanukkah present from #JewishStudies: our new podcast, on 's "The Chanukah Song," ft. , and me. Pls check it out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the + primarysourcepodcast.com
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I wrote about the sale of MEC.
First it lost the mountain from its brand. Now it has lost the co-op from its spirit. All that’s left is equipment.
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Nearly 60 (!) archival projects are already underway in the US/Canada. Excited to see my work in Toronto, along with on this landscape map:
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Appreciating this emphasis on diversity in new documentation projects re: covid and the Jewish experience, spearheaded by @SchustermanFoun 👏🏼
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Excellent essay by Steve Zipperstein on the enduring influence of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in a smart package on conspiracy theories:
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AJS members , David Fraser, , and have their work featured in the current issue of the journal Canadian Jewish Studies.
Read the journal: cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs
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Why does Canada have not one but several memorials to Nazi collaborators? And why have Canadian Jewish groups remained silent?
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Any way you cut it, the pandemic is impacting Jewish ritual circumcision. My latest in
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