2020The American Soviet Mentality: Collective demonization invades our culture BY IZABELLA TABAROVSKYThe Afterlife: Alexander ‘Sasha’ Pechersky led a successful prisoner revolt at the Sobibor death camp. His story of extraordinary courage was also the story of millions of Soviet Jews who lived and died in a country that refused to acknowledge their fate. BY DAVID BEZMOZGISStanley Crouch (1945–2020): The great jazz and cultural critic, soloing over changes, sang his enthusiasm for America BY PAUL BERMANDo Holocaust Survivors Dream of Electric Sheep? 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BY JONAH RASKINI Destroyed a LeWitt: How the father of minimalism brought power to the people, and learned to let go BY JEREMY SIGLER2018The Amazing Return of the Yabloner Rebbe: An astonishing true story of a man’s encounter with fate BY PINI DUNNERMe, U, Baku, Quba: How a tiny enclave of Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan produced some of the former Soviet world’s richest men BY JOSHUA COHENThe Cross on Our Foreheads: The best Yiddish story ever written about a pogrom is by Lamed Shapiro, the early 20th-century American Yiddish writer who wanted the Jews to get woke BY DARA HORNKnives: Tablet Original Fiction: Anger management in a Vancouver restaurant BY AYELET TSABARIThe Shocking Truth About Jordan Peterson: Meme Wars: How the Twitter mobs choose their targets BY WESLEY YANGThe Truth About George Soros: Understanding the Jewish billionaire—who is neither the villain of right-wing caricature, nor the angel of left-wing hagiography BY JAMES KIRCHICKThe Half-Life of Sexual Abuse in a Holocaust-Survivor Family: Helen Epstein completes her clear-eyed, fearless, taboo-breaking autobiographical trilogy BY IRENA KLEPFISZIs This Story Real? 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BY MATTHEW FISHBANEA Last Conversation with Aharon Appelfeld: The great Jewish writer on his linguistic and literary heritage, the Bohemian way, and the catastrophic modern break between Jews old and new BY DAVID SAMUELSIn the Vernadsky Library: Newly digitized recordings offer an unprecedented glimpse of the Ukrainian-Jewish past BY JAKE MARMER2017Whitman and the American Revelation: The epiphany that led to a national literature’s single greatest achievement: tucked in a prosaic, newly discovered early novel are the seeds of ‘Leaves of Grass’ BY PAUL BERMANThe Gift of the Mishnah: For the first time in English, a short story by the Yiddish master, in which 19th-century Hasidism meets its radical grandchildren in the 20th BY ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGERThe Secrets of John Singer Sargent’s Jewess, Lady Adele Meyer: How the American master came to this living portrait, true to life—but what life? 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