Maksim Goldenshteyn

Twitter was good for books Can other sites do some of the same useful work?

"Twitter was good for books: Can other sites do some of the same useful work?"

A must-read essay by @derekkrissoff.bsky.social on what a fractured social media environment means for title discoverability and the strength of the book community as a whole.

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In which I tell @derekkrissoff.bsky.social: “Booksky has its moments but in general social media is now totally decentralized and it’s just harder” -- harder to connect, harder to discover, harder to (gulp) promote.

GREAT piece by Derek, always a shrewd observer in and of the book world.

American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews Four decades separated Russian Tsar Alexander II’s assassination from the convulsions of the 1917 Russian revolutions and ensuing civil war.

My latest @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social review is up. A look at Andrew Por­wanch­er’s new biography of Teddy Roosevelt from @princetonupress.bsky.social

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My Father Prosecuted History’s Crimes. Then He Died in One.

My father was a Nazi hunter, until he was killed in the Lockerbie bombing, when I was four. Now, a man will stand trial for the crime. What does it mean, after nearly forty years, to seek justice for the crimes of history? My new cover story for the Times Magazine: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/m...

YouTube video by WW2TV The Macici Group - The First War Crime Trials of Holocaust Perpetrators in Romania

Today at 2 EST, historians Diana Dumitru, @stefanc-ionescu.bsky.social, Emanuel Grec, and @granttharward.bsky.social will join @ww2tv.bsky.social to talk about Romania’s first war crimes trial, which took place 80 years ago Saturday.

Recording available afterward:

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As always, it was great to hear @returnstosender.bsky.social’s speak last night about The Zelmenyaners, recently reissued from the @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social’s White Goat Press (written by Moyshe Kulbak, translated by Hillel Halkin). It includes Sasha’s notes and introduction.

Kapusta "Come for the food and stay for the stories – every curious cook will take a leaf out of this book." – Yotam Ottolenghi "A rare cookbook that engages our thinking and delights our s...

On the bright side, this cookbook from Alissa Timoshkina looks amazing www.penguin.co.uk/books/466737...

Zelenskyy defends his sovereign country and citizens against two tag-teaming bullying extortionists and glorified state-mafia bosses. Don’t accept another narrative. It is what is. Just a shameful US policy - thoughtless and counterproductive and one that is no foreign policy at all.

Essay | Russia Wants to Erase Ukraine’s Future—And Its Past The memory of Soviet-era famines, mass killings and other traumas makes Ukraine determined not to return to Russian rule

The war in Ukraine is a war for historical truth. My WSJ essay about how Ukraine’s tragic past — the subject of my new novel No Country for Love — explains its determination not to succumb to Russian rule once again. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Appeasement at Munich World Wars, Past and Possible

"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible"
The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today.
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A screenshot from the website PuncturedLines.com. A banner with old manuscript and samizdat pages at the top followed by the website content below. The opening post lines read: 2025 Books by Post-Soviet Authors February 11, 2025 ~ Sasha Vasilyuk ~ Edit"2025 Books by Post-Soviet Authors" 2025 is going to be a big year for books written by immigrant authors hailing from the Soviet Union who now call North America home. Since 2021, I’ve kept a running list of books coming out from our community as a way to keep tabs and, frankly, because no one else was doing it. Last year, when my own debut novel came out, there were only 7 books out from our community, a couple of them paperback editions of 2023 novels. This year, however, we have twelve new titles, plus three books–including my own–being released in paperback. A recent record! I imagine the war in Ukraine might have had something to do with this increased output as several of the authors below engage with the war and the resulting refugee crisis.

2025 Books by Post-Soviet Authors -- Thanks to @sashavasilyuk.bsky.social for keeping track of all the upcoming 2025 books by immigrant writers from the former USSR, writing in English and publishing in the US. Take a look -- it's quite a bounty of riches!

Authors include: @shustry.bsky.social,

January 2025: Handpicked | Yiddish Book Center Sasha Senderovich is associate professor of Slavic and international studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Every month the Yiddish Book Center puts out a selection featuring various items associated with its collections or other work. I was asked to “handpick” this month’s selections—so here they are. I focused on Soviet Yiddish (and Soviet Jewish) things: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/language-lit...

Can’t wait to read it!

I created a thing! It is definitely missing people - if you are a person who should be on it, pls let me know! go.bsky.app/8HazBeR