Lea Zeltserman

@zeltserman

Russian Jews, tech, dictators, food. Words in Tablet, Forward, Walrus, Saveur. Publisher of Soviet Samovar. Always seeking echoes of Soviet era in modern world.

Toronto, Canada
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Joined April 2010
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Apr 12

    Excited abt my latest piece in ! My take on why food is not the food yr bubbe served you. Spoiler alert: anti-semitism meets Bolshevik food policies meets mayonnaise (meets pork). So it is still ?

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  2. May 29

    Oh look, today in flashbacks to the era...

    In Belarus, the last country in Europe with the death penalty, inmates are shot in the head the day their pardon is rejected & the family finds out months later. They never find out where the grave is. Another 2 were killed this month says
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  3. May 29

    Best part of the new notification emails? Discovering all the companies I no longer have an account with that still have me on their mailing lists. Pro tip: You're doing it wrong. 🤦‍♀️

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  4. Retweeted
    May 29

    I met monks breeding sturgeon, Stalinist motorcyclists, fishmongers, an imam who built his minaret from a Soviet boiler chimney, Tatar rockers and more on a lazy cruise down the Volga river for this longread.

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  5. Retweeted
    May 27

    the key to being a successful writer is finding a unique voice and convincing the sea witch to let you have it

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  6. May 28

    Props for accessorizing to the guy with bright orange sneakers and matching bright orange kippah.

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  7. Retweeted
    May 25

    "One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language." -- Marie Howe

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  8. May 28

    As someone who can’t go back more than a few generations, this fascinates me.

    Ancestry records, Puritan witch trials edition: this is my tenth great-grandmother’s testimony that a neighbor called her daughter and my ninth great-grandmother, Mary Bliss Parsons, a witch. The case was a slander action, and Mary won. Later...
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  9. Retweeted
    May 26

    Is it too soon to say that Philip Roth was the epitome of male narcissism?

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  10. Retweeted
    May 26

    Though multicultural programming options are thriving in Canada more than ever, it has resulted in a limited dialogue—broadcasting programs that many other Canadians can’t access, and vice-versa

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  11. Retweeted
    May 26

    A reflection from me, in words and images: “Separating Parent from Child has a History. Our History.”

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  12. May 25

    People who know and are awake right now - vs. Times New Roman? Talk to me...

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  13. Retweeted
    May 23

    Daily reminder the navy once thought the Dorothy in the historic gay phrase “friends of Dorothy” referred to a real person who was the leader of an underground circle of gay service members and launched an enormous search for her.

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  14. Retweeted
    May 25

    How is this not the biggest story in Canada right now? Two men plant a bomb in a busy Mississauga restaurant, bomb explodes injury many

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    May 25

    I recently wrote about how " a singular, irresponsible tweet by a CBC reporter was instantly hijacked to fuel xenophobia and racism." Have a read below in the , or online at :

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    May 25

    I went to bed last night, thinking this story would be everywhere when I woke up. But my news and social-media feeds have been quieter than expected, for whatever reason.

    How is this not the biggest story in Canada right now? Two men plant a bomb in a busy Mississauga restaurant, bomb explodes injury many
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  17. Retweeted
    May 24

    If you are an immigrant in culinary arts and age 38 or under, you should ABSOLUTELY apply for the Vilcek Foundation Prize. It's $50,000 to a rising star immigrant in the food world - get it!

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  18. Retweeted
    May 25

    : a different take, and it reads right. ( deserve better than he offered.)

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  19. May 25

    👇👇👇

    10 Writers Not Named Philip Roth Capturing the Female American Jewish Experience via
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  20. May 25

    "Shakespeare bothered to give the hated Jewish moneylender Shylock a point of view; Mark Twain bothered to imagine emotions for the runaway slave Jim. Both portrayals still reflected popular prejudice, often horribly so. But they also included a glimmer of humanity beyond it…"

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  21. May 25

    And: "the misogyny isn’t really the problem. After all, if one policed literature for bigotry, there would be little left to read. The problem is literary: these caricatures reveal a lack of not only empathy, but curiosity."

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