A worthy new biography of the late historian Eric Hobsbawm shows the ardent communist in the crucible of the 20th century
May Day: Portraits of the Jewish soldiers who fought in World War II under the flag of Communism
A new English translation for May Day
May Day: How Polish filmakers documented and interpreted the ‘March Emigration,’ an ‘anti-Zionist’ purge in communist Warsaw 50 years ago
May Day: The surprising Jewish origins of the animated character who taught a generation of Soviet children to be good communists
In some Israeli communities, the international workers holiday was just as important as the Jewish holidays
The epic story of how one American Jew became ‘twinned’ with a coreligionist in Soviet Russia he eventually helped bring to freedom—and why it taught him so much about true resistance and activism
This May Day, a Jewish Refusenik looks back on the Spring of 1985
April showers bring May celebration
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