How the Soviet Jew Was Made by Sasha Senderovich Sale Books a young Jew of mysterious

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How the Soviet Jew Was Made by Sasha Senderovich Sale Books a young Jew of mysteriousListen to our podcast with translator and author Sasha Senderovich A close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity. The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the Jewish community of the former tsarist empire. In particular, the Bolshevik government eliminated the