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.

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
Russian Jewish American Lit Goes Boom!
New novels in English by Soviet émigrés navigate the line between immigrant memoir and true fiction
bySasha Senderovich
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
‘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
Moscow Goes Kosher
The Russian capital’s recent boom in kosher restaurants shows that kashrut isn’t just for Jews anymore
bySasha Senderovich
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
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