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In the Shadow of the Holocaust In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union Edited and translated by Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav Stanford University Press  Pub date: February 10,...

We worked hard on this paragraph, dealing as it does with a uniquely Soviet process of multiple exchanges of rooms it would take for someone to be able to live on in the specific place where they wanted, insistently, to live again. Pub date Feb 10! sashasenderovich.weebly.com/in-the-shado... 3/end

This is an excerpt from Dina Kalinovskaya’s “The Picture in the Teacup” (1985) about returning, in the mid-1950s, to a communal apartment in Odesa where a mother (Marusya) and her daughter used to live before the war—when the family had been larger, too. 2

In the Shadow of the Holocaust | Stanford University Press A first-of-its kind collection of short stories that provides an underappreciated perspective on the Holocaust, as it was experienced and remembered in the former Soviet Union.

A teaser ahead of our publication date for “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” next Tuesday. Most of the stories Harriet Murav and I translated take place *after* World War II and the Holocaust; the expansive range of what life *after* destruction and genocide looks like makes these stories powerful. 1

I understand that there’s deep cultural significance to this year’s halftime show but can we please avoid the first time and the second half?

True enough!

Sasha Senderovich presents 'In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Newly translated short stories by Jewish Soviet writers explore loss, memory, and making lives in the wake of genocide.

Launching “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” at my local bookstore a week from today! All details here, as well as rsvp to register (free, of course): www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/sasha-... Third Place Books (Ravenna) in Seattle, Feb 12, 7 pm. @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Anne Frank wasn’t invoked because she was identical to today’s undocumented immigrants. She was invoked because she was a child destroyed by a regime that transformed paperwork, registries, and enforcement into mechanisms of terror—while insisting, all along, that it was merely following the law. This is why ICE cannot be excluded from the conversation. ICE targets people whose defining feature is their lack of state-recognized papers; people who work, form families, and build communities while living under constant threat of detention and expulsion. The claim isn’t that Minneapolis under ICE occupation is exactly the same as Nazi Germany. The claim is that systems of bureaucratic cruelty justified by legality aren’t historical aberrations. They are recurring political, juridical technologies.

Such an important essay by @joelhs.bsky.social @religiondispatches.org on Tim Walz, the Anne Frank analogy (and broader Holocaust analogies) and ICE terrorizing Minneapolis and elsewhere. religiondispatches.org/2026/02/05/f...

“Jim Crow, but make it national“ is a more honest slogan than “Make American Great Again” because the former is what they actually mean.

Are Schumer + Jeffries fascism’s enablers or active collaborators? What the fuck.

Is that Brad Karp of Paul Weiss that made a deal with Trump? lol

Please don’t buy our book on Amazon—call your local bookstore!—but since a few people informed me that they received their pre-ordered copies a week ahead of pub date, I checked Amazon and sure enough, “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” is ready to ship. sashasenderovich.weebly.com/in-the-shado...

Minnesotans are incredible people!..

Power to the people.

Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Billionaires should not exist. If they are allowed to continue to exist, they’ll continue playing with essential institutions of society and keep breaking them until nothing is left.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

The destruction of independent media outlets and the attempts to bring higher education to heel are part of a united authoritarian strategy designed to destroy checks on their propaganda.

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Despite the ongoing death and suffering in Gaza, it's fallen out of the news. So today, @thenation.com is devoting its full website to stories from Gaza, written by reporters who have been there. Very proud of the magazine today.

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

In the Shadow of the Holocaust In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union Edited and translated by Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav Stanford University Press  Pub date: February 10,...

A pre-ordered copy of “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” has been reported as delivered! Official pub date: a week from tomorrow but it looks like copies are shipping. @stanfordpress.bsky.social sashasenderovich.weebly.com/in-the-shado...

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

Oh, for fuck’s sake. But of course.

Bernie Sanders is in the Epstein files! In the best possible way that one could turn up in the Epstein files. Also, Larry Summers kvetching to Epstein about how much his kids admire Bernie explains a lot of what’s been terribly wrong with American politics over the last decade. Anyway, go Bernie!

Which one — with the black scarf of the red elastic bands — as author portrait for my eventual memoir about my Soviet teeth? (This time, the trouble is my cheek rebelling six weeks after a wisdom tooth extraction; the doctor said to apply heat .)

While the ghouls who’ve taken over @ushmm.bsky.social police Holocaust analogies, elderly Jews understand what’s what.

goodbye White Settlement, hello "Racialized-as-white Settlement"

Maybe @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov should consider finding a spine. Or growing a pair. Whatever the more appropriate idiom is.

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

Donald Trump and Pam Bondi once again violated the Constitution.

They’re wasting your tax dollars arresting journalists — while protecting pedophiles and the murderers of Renée Good and Alex Pretti.

That’s authoritarian bullshit.