Courtesy of Masha Gessen
| 12:19 PM Nov 23, 2009
Seventy-five years ago, 600 Jews from Ukraine and Belarus traveled across Siberia to be the first settlers of Birobidzhan, a Jewish autonomous region 50 miles short of the Chinese border. To research a book she’s writing on the would-be homeland for Nextbook Press, journalist Masha Gessen retraced their path across Russia. She arrived at a ...
What happens when your inheritance includes a life-threatening genetic mutation?
| 12:00 PM Apr 7, 2008
Five years ago, Moscow-based journalist Masha Gessen learned that she had inherited a genetic mutation—one which disproportionately affects women of Ashkenazi descent—that put her at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer. A decade earlier, her mother, who carried the same mutation, had died of breast cancer.
Armed with this knowledge, Gessen was forced to make ...
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