Why do American Jews idealize Soviet Communism?; America's best Jewish baker isn't Jewish; Vad Vashem to honor first Arab as Righteous Gentile; more

All the Jewish art you need to see this week [Tablet Logo] [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Rss]( [Podcast]( [Np]( ADVERTISEMENT [Ad]( October 23, 2017 [Why Do American Jews Idealize Soviet Communism?]( [Largeimage]( Ruth R. Wisse Perpetuating the romance of the Bolshevik regime, whose ‘good intentions’ cannot mask the horrors imposed in its name [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Book Reviews / Alexander Aciman [Vasily Grossman, the Great Forgotten Soviet Jewish Literary Genius of Exile and Betrayal, Lives Inside Us All]( Bookworm: if ‘Everything Flows,’ when does it stop? [Read This]( [Smallimage]( United States / Robert Rockaway [Jews Fled Russia to Escape Poverty, Oppression, and Czarist Edicts—and their Own Self-Interested Communal Leaders]( What did America offer them? [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Food / Gabriella Gershenson [America’s Best Jewish Baker Isn’t Jewish]( How minister’s daughter Melissa Weller became the queen of bagels and babka [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [Yad Vashem to Honor First Arab as Righteous Gentile]( Dr. Mohamed Helmy, an Egyptian urologist living in Berlin, risked his life to hide four of his Jewish friends. The honor was initially offered in 2013, but Dr. Helmy’s relatives refused to accept it from an institution based in Israel. [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [New Book Tells Forgotten Story of Hitler’s Failed Hollywood Takeover]( And of how a Jewish spy stopped the brownshirts from marching down Wilshire [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [On View: All the Jewish Art You Need to See This Week]( Refugees in Tulsa, beautiful minds in Memphis, chocolate in New York City [Read This]( [Visit Tablet]( This email was sent to you by Tablet Magazine. To unsubscribe to this email, reply to this email with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. Tablet Magazine | 37 West 28th Street, 8th Floor | New York, NY 10001 [Remove me from this list]( | [Forward to a Friend](