Tag: Russia

“‘The Jews’ by Tchirikov is the first text written by a Russian from inside a Jewish home.” Interview with André Markowicz

The great translator André Markowicz had never heard of 'The Jews', a forgotten play by Evgeny Tchirikov, written in 1903 after the pogrom of Kishinev....

By Stéphane Bou

Russian and Ukrainian Jews in the war. Interview with Pinchas Goldschmidt, former Chief Rabbi of Moscow

As of this summer, Pinchas Goldschmidt is no longer the Chief Rabbi of Moscow, a position he held for almost thirty years. Born in Zurich,...

By Stéphane Bou & Lisa Vapné

What about « denazification »?

There are the facts: the violence of the Russian force that is bearing down on Ukraine. There are the words: Putin's propaganda, Zelensky's desperate appeals...

By Julia Christ

Babi Yar: Which Monument(s) ?

Exactly eighty years ago, on September 29-30, 1941, nearly 34,000 Jews from Kiev were executed at Babi Yar, a ravine located west of the Ukrainian...

By Lisa Vapné