Sasha Senderovich

May 25, 2023 | jpost.com | Paul Goldberg |Sasha Senderovich

First, let’s establish what How the Soviet Jew Was Made is not about. It’s not about refuseniks and emigrés. The label “Soviet Jew” – as usually applied – was coined by outsiders, literary scholar Sasha Senderovich points out in this groundbreaking book.

Feb 2, 2023 | jewishcurrents.org | Sasha Senderovich

(This article previously appeared in the Jewish Currents email newsletter; subscribe here!)The World and All That It Holds, the new novel by the acclaimed Bosnian American writer Aleksandar Hemon published last week, is a story of longing. The novel’s Sephardic Jewish protagonist, Rafael Pinto, is happy to spend his student years in Vienna, the imperial capital he finds far more accepting of his sexual interest in men than provincial Sarajevo.

Jan 22, 2023 | nybooks.com | Sasha Senderovich |Dionne Brand |Mark Galeotti |A.M. Homes

For Matisse art was a perpetual emergency, a matter of testing boundaries, breaking through.