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Long overlooked, Soviet Jewish stories written after the Holocaust emerge in new translation

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By Sasha Vasilyuk
| Jewish Telegraphic Agency Verified
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The usual perception of Soviet Jewish literature after World War II is that there was none. The conversation around the decades after the Holocaust usually focuses on the refuseniks and large waves of emigration away from a place with a history of suppressing its Jewish minority. A new collection of translated short stories by Soviet Jewish writers, originally published in the USSR in Russian and — mind-blowingly — in Yiddish, challenges that view.
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Art Is Always Political in an Authoritarian State

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By Sasha Vasilyuk
| Electric Literature Verified
Interviews Svetlana Satchkova’s “The Undead” contemplates artistic responsibility, state censorship, and the risks of being an artist in Russia Screenshot from F@ck This Job While many of us watch with dread as American society is rocked by menacing politics, New York-based author Svetlana Satchkova has already lived through the experience of her country becoming more authoritarian.
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80 Years Later, Both Trump and Putin Brand WWII a Victory

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By Sasha Vasilyuk
| TIME Verified
Eighty years after the Allied powers accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender and ended the fighting in Europe, world leaders are now fighting about who did the most for victory. President Donald Trump declared May 8 as a national holiday to commemorate American victory in WWII because, as he wrote in one social media post, “nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery, or military brilliance.” But in Kyiv, my Ukrainian aunt Vita immediately thought of Vladimir Putin.
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