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May 29, 2026
Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski
Sh. An-ski (Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport, 1863-1920) was a writer in Russian and Yiddish, a revolutionary, a wartime relief worker, and an ethnographer who…
May 22, 2026
Destination Elsewhere
In this unique “history from below," Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe (Cornell University Press, 2021)…
May 19, 2026
"My Heart is in the East"
The question of origins is often difficult to study because originators do not always leave a paper trail. Therefore, uncovering origins can be challe…
May 18, 2026
Fascismos
Carlos Martins joins the New Books Network to discuss his book Fascism: Beyond Hitler and Mussolini (Desassossego, 2022) (in Portuguese Fascismos: Par…
May 18, 2026
In the Midst of Civilized Europe
Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil o…
May 13, 2026
The Light of Days
Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—som…
May 8, 2026
Radio ReOrient S14:6: The Road to Sarajevo, with Haris Tagari, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan
In this episode, Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan spoke with Haris Tagari about his recent journey to Sarajevo in a 20 year old Toyota Yaris. Along the …
May 4, 2026
Cold War Brokers
In this episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast, I sat down with Szabolcs László to talk about his new book, Cold War Brokers: Hungarian-American C…
April 28, 2026
The Future of Hiding
How can lives and things that are rendered invisible be crucial to identity, politics, and the future? Drawing on experimental ethnographic research i…
April 26, 2026
The History of Birobidzhan
In this episode, Alisa interviews Dr. Gennady Estraikh. His book titled, The History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia (Blo…
April 21, 2026
The First Social Democracy
Following the collapse of the Russian Empire, the small nation of Georgia established its independence in May 1918. Its leaders surprised the world by…
April 20, 2026
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
In their anthology, In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union (Stanford University Press, 2026), Sasha Sen…
April 19, 2026
From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg
After escaping the Vilna Ghetto and surviving winter in the forest among partisan fighters, Avrom Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow in 1944. The renow…
April 19, 2026
Russia's Hybrid Warfare Offensive Against the West
Kristan Stoddart's Russia's Hybrid Warfare Offensive Against the West (de Gruyter, 2025) is a timely and systematic analysis of Russian hybrid warfare…
April 12, 2026
Under Western Eyes
Under Western Eyes: Vulnerable Minorities and the Russian State in New Cold War Cultures (Academic Studies Press, 2025) examines the New Cold War betw…
April 11, 2026
Master of Rome
By any measure, Julius Caesar is one of the most significant and famous figures in Roman history. Self-identified as a "popular" politician, he advoca…
April 10, 2026
Avrom Sutzkever
In 2017, a cache of Jewish materials was discovered in the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania. The discovery included a manuscript of “Ts…
April 6, 2026
The People's Patriarch
On October 28, 1917, just days after the Bolsheviks seized power, the great Council of the Russian Orthodox Church voted to restore the patriarchate, …
April 2, 2026
Rethinking Kishinev
Kishinev's 1903 pogrom was the first event in Russian Jewish life to receive international attention. The riot, leaving 49 dead in an obscure border t…