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Sasha Senderovich

Sasha Senderovich is an assistant professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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    In Memoriam: Svetlana Boym

    The prolific scholar, writer, and artist, who taught Slavic and comparative literature at Harvard, died this week in Boston. Her texts continue to guide young thinkers.

    bySasha Senderovich
  • (Anna Loshkin)
    (Anna Loshkin)
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    Russian Jewish American Lit Goes Boom!

    New novels in English by Soviet émigrés navigate the line between immigrant memoir and true fiction

    bySasha Senderovich
  • The Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower. (Wikimedia)
    The Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower. (Wikimedia)
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    Crimea Crisis Revives a Classic Soviet Jewish Joke

    The return of Rabinovich is the revival of a Soviet mentality in Putin’s Russia

    bySasha Senderovich
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine)
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    ‘Little Failure’ Is Big Success by Ex-Right-Wing Soviet Jew Who Went to Oberlin, Therapy

    Gary Shteyngart’s new memoir is a touching meditation on the origins, nature, and limits of humor

    bySasha Senderovich
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    Moscow Goes Kosher

    The Russian capital’s recent boom in kosher restaurants shows that kashrut isn’t just for Jews anymore

    bySasha Senderovich
  • Ludmila Ulitskaya.(Courtesy Overlook Press)
    Ludmila Ulitskaya.(Courtesy Overlook Press)
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    Translations

    Ludmila Ulitskaya’s playful new novel focuses on a Jewish Christian saint, a human contradiction who strives to bring peace and compassion to a plagued world

    bySasha Senderovich
  • “Free Yigal Amir” protesters outside the Hasharon prison, near Tel Aviv, where he is being held.(David Furst/AFP/Getty Images)
    “Free Yigal Amir” protesters outside the Hasharon prison, near Tel Aviv, where he is being held.(David Furst/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Dissonance

    Yigal Amir assassinated Yitzhak Rabin 15 years ago in an effort to derail the Oslo peace accords. Now his wife, a Russian émigré, is trying to turn him into a heroic Soviet-style political prisoner.

    bySasha Senderovich
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