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Decolonizing Thanksgiving

November 21, 2023 By Albert Bender

The true history of the holiday surfaces, once again.

A Soviet Jewish delegation to America experiences the John F. Kennedy assassination

November 20, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon

Leading the group was the Soviet Yiddish poet Aron Vergelis, who was editor of Sovetish Heymland (Soviet Homeland), the primary literary magazine in Yiddish in the USSR.

Jake Heggie’s Two Remain: An operatic double bill featuring Holocaust survivors

November 15, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon

“Arguably the world’s most popular 21st-century opera and art song composer."

Meridel Le Sueur’s ‘Proletarian Literature and the Middle West’

November 14, 2023 By Meridel Le Sueur And Taylor Dorrell

Here, published online for the first time, is Le Sueur’s speech to the 1935 American Writers Congress.

‘Minor detail’: Israeli military atrocities exposed, in the form of a novel

November 13, 2023 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Palestinian author Adania Shibli’s novel Minor Details reproduces the ordinariness, the bland everyday routine of Israeli military occupation on every page.