Sasha Senderovich

Sasha Senderovich Presents Several Papers at Harvard, Brandeis, and Colombia Universities

May 31, 2016

Sasha Senderovich , Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and Jewish Studies, spent the Spring 2016 on research leave as a Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University . During his fellowship, he continued work on his forthcoming book, How the Soviet Jew Was...

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Sasha Senderovich Presents Research at the University of Illinois and Harvard

March 28, 2016

Sasha Senderovich , Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and Jewish Studies, is spending the current semester on research leave as a Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. Prof. Senderovich presented a chapter of his book in progress, Seekers of Happiness: Mobility, Culture,...

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Sasha Senderovich Presents on Russian Jewish American Writers

Dec. 8, 2015

Sasha Senderovich , Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and Jewish Studies, presented a paper on how contemporary Soviet-born American Jewish writers respond to the idea of "the Soviet Jew" that emerged in the West during the Cold War, at the annual conference of the Association of Slavic, East European, and...

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Student David Coons and Faculty Sasha Senderovich Produce Collaborative Publication

Oct. 14, 2015

The Program in Jewish Studies is excited to announce that faculty member Sasha Senderovich , Assistant Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies, and Jewish Studies and Studio Art double major David Coons recently collaborated on a publication for IN GEVEB , a new, hip online...

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Sasha Senderovich publishes two articles, tribute to Svetlana Boym

Aug. 28, 2015

Sasha Senderovich , Assistant Professor of Russian and Jewish Studies, published an article 鈥淪oviet Jews, Re-Imagined: 脡migr茅 Anglophone Writers from the USSR,鈥 in The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). His translation 鈥 a collaboration with Harriet Murav (University of Illinois) 鈥 of David Bergelson's Yiddish-language...

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Sasha Senderovich receives prestigious grants to write book "Seekers of Happiness"

May 25, 2015

Sasha Senderovich , Assistant Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies, will be on research leave during the academic year 2015-2016, supported by fellowships from 兔子先生传媒文化作品's Center for Humanities and the Arts and Harvard University's Center for Jewish Studies. He has also received a grant...

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Senderovich presents at the University of Oxford

March 6, 2015

Sasha Senderovich presented a paper on Soviet Jewish culture at the international conference on "The Art of Cultural Translation: Performing Jewish Traditions in Modern Times" at the University of Oxford, UK, in January. In February he presented "Hammer and Pickle: Jewish Humor in the Soviet Union" in Boulder's Congregation Bonai...

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Sasha Senderovich presents at "New Wave of Russian-Jewish Cultural Production" Conference

Jan. 6, 2015

Sasha Senderovich , Assistant Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies, presented a paper on writers Gary Shteyngart, Anya Ulinich, and David Bezmozgis at the conference " The New Wave of Russian-Jewish Cultural Production " organized by Columbia University's Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East...

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Sasha Senderovich moderates book event with Gary Shteyngart

Nov. 25, 2014

Sasha Senderovich , Assistant Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies moderated an event with the author Gary Shteyngart at Baruch College in New York centered on Shteyngart's memoir, Little Failure . The event was organized by Baruch's Sandra Kahn Wasserman Jewish Studies Center .

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Professor Sasha Senderovich Publishes in The New York Times and Appears on NPR

Oct. 12, 2013

Sasha Senderovich , Assistant Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies, recently published an op-ed in The New York Times entitled " Goodbye, Lenin? " (follow the link to read). The op-ed ran December 9, 2013 and addressed the tearing down of the statue of Vladimir...