Why American Jews idealize Soviet communism; how a minister’s daughter became the queen of babka; Hitler’s plot against Hollywood; more

Punk pioneer Vivien Goldman takes the stage for her first-ever solo act [Tablet Logo] [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Rss]( [Podcast]( [Np]( ADVERTISEMENT [Ad]( October 29, 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]( 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]( Book Reviews / David Mikics [The Sickening Cost of Lenin’s Revolution]( Victor Sebestyen’s engaging ‘Lenin’ and Anne Applebaum’s meticulous ‘Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine’ help explain why a century later the central amorality of the unfulfilled Utopian ideal is still with us [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Fiction and Essays / Maxim D. Shrayer [Soviet Ghosts Vacation in Santiago]( An émigré travels in Chile with his wife and daughters [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]( [Punk Pioneer Vivien Goldman on Bob Marley, Jewish Music, and How the Internet Challenged Creativity]( As she takes the stage for her first-ever solo act, reflections on a storied past and an uncertain future [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [Does a New Documentary on the Ex-Orthodox Help or Harm Its Subjects?]( I believe strongly in giving marginalized voices a platform. But to do so honestly means to admit to the more problematic reasons we tell these stories. [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](