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by Joshua Ellison

The present is always changing but, in Russia, so is the past.

by Olga Zondberg

This is the shortest day of the year in our neck of the woods.

by Yuri Slezkine

I became mostly Jewish when I became anti-Soviet.

by Rodger Kamenetz

It wasn’t the beginning of the end. It was the beginning of the beginning.

by Habitus

Every generation rewrites the great books.

Maternal Capital

The present is always changing but, in Russia, so is the past.

Posted Jan 21, 2010 by Joshua Ellison
Seven Hours One Minute

This is the shortest day of the year in our neck of the woods.

Posted Jan 21, 2010 by Olga Zondberg
How I Became Multicultural

I became mostly Jewish when I became anti-Soviet.

Posted Jan 21, 2010 by Yuri Slezkine

Extremely Hungary continues

Our friends at the Hungarian Cultural Center in New York produced a very ambitious and impressive year-long festival in 2009, Extremely Hungary, that brought an unprecedented [...]

Posted Mar 03, 2010 by Habitus
Most Russian speakers outside the FSU are Jews?

If you are wondering what you are going to do in November, 2011, Harvard will be hosting a very interesting conference on the Russian-Jewish Diaspora. Not exactly timely information yet, but this statistic from the program description is quite [...]

Posted Mar 02, 2010 by Habitus
Tony Judt and ‘edge people’

The always-provocative Tony Judt has been wrestling aloud with his own past and self-definition in the NYRBlog. Today, he takes on the problems of identity and affiliation directly:

As an English-born student of European history teaching in the US; as [...]

Posted Feb 26, 2010 by Habitus

Moscow issue reviewed

We were very gratified to receive a glowing review from Newpages.com, one of the only publications out there that gives serious attention to journals. The reviewer, Anne Wolfe, sums up the issue nicely:
As one reads the poetry and stories, [...]

Posted Feb 16, 2010 by Habitus
Heading to New Orleans for the General Assembly?

Read reflections on this city of multiple diasporas by Habitus editor Joshua Ellison, essayist Andrei Codrescu, and poet Rodger Kamenetz.

Posted Feb 15, 2010 by Habitus
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Posted Oct 08, 2009 by Habitus