Jewish veterans of the Red Army; documenting Poland’s ‘anti-Zionist’ purge of 1968; the Soviet Mickey Mouse; Babel’s ‘Awakening’; more

Our incoherent Lebanon policy [Tablet Logo] [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Podcast]( [Np]( May 1, 2018 · May Day · [Red Army Veterans]( [Largeimage]( Jonathan Alpeyrie Portraits of the Jewish soldiers who fought in World War II under the flag of Communism [Read This]( [Smallimage]( May Day / Masha Shpolberg [The 1968 Forced Exodus of Polish Jewry on Film]( How Polish filmakers documented and interpreted the ‘March Emigration,’ an ‘anti-Zionist’ purge in communist Warsaw 50 years ago [Read This]( [Smallimage]( May Day / Maya Balakirsky Katz [A Beast of Unknown Origins]( The surprising Jewish origins of the animated character who taught a generation of Soviet children to be good communists [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Fiction and Essays / Maxim D. Shrayer [‘Awakening,’ a Short Story by Isaac Babel]( A new English translation for May Day [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Observance / Adam Kirsch [If A, Then B]( Through Daf Yomi’s exercises in mathematical logic, Talmudic rabbis attempt to decipher the will of a reasonable God. Plus: What distinguishes guilt from sin? [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [Our Incoherent Lebanon Policy]( Why would an administration that instinctively mistrusts state-building funnel millions to Hezbollah-run institutions? [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [The ADL Kicked Out of Leading Starbucks’ Diversity Training]( Following pressure from Women’s March leader and Louis Farrakhan acolyte Tamika Mallory [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [At the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Alabama, a Lesson in Memory and Responsibility]( Individual acts of violence are horrifying, but violent action coupled with systemic inaction is more horrifying still [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](