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Maria Rubins
Feb 3, 20231 min read
A Cult in the Making: Joseph Brodsky in Petersburg (Part II)
In a previous blog I shared my impressions of the “Room and a Half” museum organized in Joseph Brodsky’s former living quarters in Saint...
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Maria Rubins
Feb 3, 20231 min read
The Price of Conformism: Do all Russians deserve the sanctions?
One of the powerful moments of the High Holidays liturgy is the vidui prayer, when all the Jews in the congregation, rhythmically beating...
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Maria Rubins
Feb 3, 20231 min read
Evgeny Kissin: Israeli Pianist and Yiddish Poet
With the pandemic still dragging on and the prospects bleak for a return to normal, any cultural event in Paris is perceived as a gift...
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Maria Rubins
Feb 3, 20231 min read
A Cult in the Making: Joseph Brodsky in Petersburg
Joseph Brodsky, the 1987 Nobel Prize winner, was kicked out of the USSR in 1972 on an Israeli visa contrived by the Soviet authorities –...
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Maria Rubins
Feb 3, 20234 min read
Diaspora and Homeland: Alternative Worlds of Russian Literature?
The last hundred years have been marked by unprecedented migrations caused by world wars, revolutions, and economic globalization....
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