Sasha Senderovich 🌻

I would be so so curious to hear your thoughts about some of these — especially about our translation of Margarita Khemlin, since you are a fellow Khemlin translator.

Published copies of “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” edited and translated from Yiddish and Russian by Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav.

Two months ahead of the official publication date but the author copies of our book are here! @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Abolish the Gestapo.

Great to hold the latest issue of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social in my hands. The reporting from UCLA in this issue is especially important.

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

This is hell.

Who wore it better?

And that’s a wrap for my first-ever dedicated course on Yiddish literature (in translation). Four of the students were quite insistent — they stayed for over an hour after our last class today to talk to me about it — that I start a book club with them next.

The genocide in Gaza has reshaped American Jewish politics, and American politics more broadly. Unconditional support for Israel is no longer a given among the public, or even among Jews. Meanwhile, the Trump administration and the MAGA movement have appointed themselves the defenders of Jews. In the name of fighting antisemitism they have taken down university presidents, forced universities into agreements that violate academic freedom and have defunded essential research — all while courting actual antisemites more and more openly. It’s enough to break your brain, and that is very much the point. Autocrats aim to scramble reality, plunging the citizenry into a permanent state of anxious confusion.

This is the most succinct description of a key feature of the current moment that I’ve read so far—by M. Gessen writing in the New York Times today in support of our need to support @jewishcurrents.bsky.social as a magazine navigating us through this confusion. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

What a fucking racist pig. Not like we needed more proof.

Avrom Karpinovitsh's "Don't Forget" (1951) translated by @spinsker.bsky.social and published @ingeveb.bsky.social totally blew my students' minds last night. Paired with Dovid Bergelson's "Among Refugees,” it made for a fascinating discussion about retributive violence. ingeveb.org/texts-and-tr...

What is / should be on the syllabus for the course on "Jewish American Literature and Culture" next term, winter 2026? (I've taught this course multiple times, so I have a syllabus, but this is one of these open-ended questions to see what's on people's mind -- including given these our times).

And that’s why one doesn’t follow illegal orders.

Northwestern is run by idiots.

Opinion | This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza

There is a lot here that should be questioned more—and yet, coming from an Obama-era policy head, it's a giant step forward for the hope that the Democratic Party will maybe begin grappling with its complicity in the Gaza genocide. Biden really really fucking blew it. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.

This is bullshit. Shame on the University of Oklahoma.

Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.

We saw it twice this weekend. A good opportunity to get the child out of the house on a long weekend — that’s how film industry makes money! (Each parent, taking the kid to see the film in turn, appreciated the quote from “The Shining,” too!)

Life goals! @nytpitchbot.bsky.social is the best.

Pretty much what’s going on.

Extortion by the Trump regime; shameful knee-bending by the university administration. Shame on Northwestern.

And what in fresh hell is this that Facebook is target-advertising to me?! Wrong answers only.

Northwestern Agrees to a Deal With Trump Administration

Shame on Northwestern University for “settling” with mobsters. The proximity of measures to “protect Jews” to those that basically condemn trans folk—given Northwestern’s medical school’s research in trans care that is now abandoned—to suffering and worse is horrible. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...

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Upper administration at universities = the absolute worst.

See for example how #17 in this extortion agreement claims to take measures to “protect Jews” when #29, in close proximity, rolls out a host of measures that discriminate against trans individuals. This is such incredible pile of 💩, shame upon Northwestern for caving to this nonsense.

So they paid off the mob boss.

A late November sunset over the Olympics (as seen from my Seattle neighborhood)