Sasha Senderovich 🌻
@returnstosender.bsky.social
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘑𝘦𝘸 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘦 (Harvard, 2022) https://bit.ly/SovietJewBook | 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵 (Stanford, 2026) https://www.sup.org/books/jewish-studies/shadow-holocaust | he/him | Opinions my own | My website: sashasenderovich.weebly.com
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In the Shadow of the Holocaust | Stanford University Press
In the Shadow of the Holocaust is a collection of newly translated short fiction written in the aftermath of one of the most significant Jewish tragedies of the 20th century. In these works, Jewish au...
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Our book is on its way to publication! “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” is a collection of short stories translated by me & Harriet Murav from Yiddish & Russian, written after WWII by Jewish writers from the Soviet Union. Pub date: Feb 10, 2026 @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/jewish...
Okay, if the NYT is finally landing on this all-too-obviously framing, let’s be cautiously optimistic that Trump is a lame duck at this point. 🤞
Credit where it’s due. But I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this new framing comes out after a Democratic wave election, the ascendance (and surprisingly broad acceptance) of Mamdani, and his steadily crashing poll numbers.
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Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
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November 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Okay, if the NYT is finally landing on this all-too-obviously framing, let’s be cautiously optimistic that Trump is a lame duck at this point. 🤞
I really should think about how different courses I teach in a given term interact in my own head despite not sharing any students between them. So, having, on the same “Come and See” in my Soviet film class and Lamed Shapiro’s “White Challah” in my Yiddish lit class, is just too much.
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I really should think about how different courses I teach in a given term interact in my own head despite not sharing any students between them. So, having, on the same “Come and See” in my Soviet film class and Lamed Shapiro’s “White Challah” in my Yiddish lit class, is just too much.
Establishment Jewish Organizations In Search of Different Jews They’d Like to Lead. @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social @forward.com
As young Jews move away from Israel, Jewish leaders are reluctant to change their approach
Widespread recognition of a generational split on Israel clashed with an unapologetic tone of support for the country at the JFNA conference.
forward.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Establishment Jewish Organizations In Search of Different Jews They’d Like to Lead. @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social @forward.com
Wow. Fuck Trump.
BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Wow. Fuck Trump.
Quite glad to have been gifted this by @bergstrombookstore.bsky.social!
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Quite glad to have been gifted this by @bergstrombookstore.bsky.social!
Nu, at about 10:30 pm today I declined another drink opportunity offered by some younger colleagues (it would have requiered a 15-min walk from the conference hotel), and got called a little old man (“starichok”) in return. At 44 years of age, I have arrived! @aseees.bsky.social #aseees2025
November 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Nu, at about 10:30 pm today I declined another drink opportunity offered by some younger colleagues (it would have requiered a 15-min walk from the conference hotel), and got called a little old man (“starichok”) in return. At 44 years of age, I have arrived! @aseees.bsky.social #aseees2025
Off to @aseees.bsky.social. I’ll carry my advance copy of “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” in my tote; co-translator Harriet Murav will also! Do stop one of us to take a look! It’s already on at least a couple of syllabi in winter/spring 2026.
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Off to @aseees.bsky.social. I’ll carry my advance copy of “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” in my tote; co-translator Harriet Murav will also! Do stop one of us to take a look! It’s already on at least a couple of syllabi in winter/spring 2026.
Omar El-Akkad won the non-fiction category for the National Book Award for “One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This,” a phenomenal book about the genocide in Gaza. When one day everyone will claim that they’ve always been against this, don’t let the supporters forget that they were not.
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Omar El-Akkad won the non-fiction category for the National Book Award for “One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This,” a phenomenal book about the genocide in Gaza. When one day everyone will claim that they’ve always been against this, don’t let the supporters forget that they were not.
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one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.
Heading to ASEEES tomorrow (will be there Thursday p.m until Sunday). Made plenty of plans but there’s always more to do and more people to see. Get in touch so we can hang out and catch up and maybe do something together! @aseees.bsky.social #aseees2025
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Heading to ASEEES tomorrow (will be there Thursday p.m until Sunday). Made plenty of plans but there’s always more to do and more people to see. Get in touch so we can hang out and catch up and maybe do something together! @aseees.bsky.social #aseees2025
So, was Dershowitz Trump’s lawyer in the impeachment trial in the Senate, etc., because of the Epstein connection they share / Trump might have promised to help bury? No wonder the pierogi vendor wouldn’t sell to him.
November 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
So, was Dershowitz Trump’s lawyer in the impeachment trial in the Senate, etc., because of the Epstein connection they share / Trump might have promised to help bury? No wonder the pierogi vendor wouldn’t sell to him.
Pretty much.
If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Pretty much.
Getting close to publication of my and Harriet Murav’s new book of translations of Holocaust lit from Yiddish and Russian. Pub date: Feb 10, 2026 but if you pre-order (wherever books are sold) the book will be in your hands in late December. @stanfordpress.bsky.social bit.ly/HolocaustShadowSUP2026
In the Shadow of the Holocaust | Stanford University Press
A first-of-its kind collection of short stories that provides an underappreciated perspective on the Holocaust, as it was experienced and remembered in the former Soviet Union.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Getting close to publication of my and Harriet Murav’s new book of translations of Holocaust lit from Yiddish and Russian. Pub date: Feb 10, 2026 but if you pre-order (wherever books are sold) the book will be in your hands in late December. @stanfordpress.bsky.social bit.ly/HolocaustShadowSUP2026
Jeff Bezos’s newspaper is worried about the new mayor of the town where Jeff Bezos made his billions without being properly taxed.
Everyone has lost their minds
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November 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Jeff Bezos’s newspaper is worried about the new mayor of the town where Jeff Bezos made his billions without being properly taxed.
Trump admin is utter ghouls all the way down.
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Trump admin is utter ghouls all the way down.
Reminds me of an old Jewish joke wherein a man with ten children & wife all living in a tiny room comes to the rabbi for advice. Rabbi advises him to get a goat, keep it indoors. Things get worse with the goat. The man returns to ask rabbi for help, rabbi advises to remove the goat. Things improve.
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Reminds me of an old Jewish joke wherein a man with ten children & wife all living in a tiny room comes to the rabbi for advice. Rabbi advises him to get a goat, keep it indoors. Things get worse with the goat. The man returns to ask rabbi for help, rabbi advises to remove the goat. Things improve.
Yes, colleges journalists have been amazing, especially in the last two years.
OMG this kicker in the Harvard Crimson article!!
College journalism kicks ass, again
College journalism kicks ass, again
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Yes, colleges journalists have been amazing, especially in the last two years.
Oh FFS. F— Larry Summers, what a f—ing creep.
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…
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November 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Oh FFS. F— Larry Summers, what a f—ing creep.
Oh FFS. Aaaaahhhh.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Oh FFS. Aaaaahhhh.
Precisely.
November 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Precisely.
Go, Eloise! (Turn the sound up!)
Hey Megyn Kelly,
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
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14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Go, Eloise! (Turn the sound up!)
The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend. MTG’s beef with Trump is over his betrayal of the “America First” movement and that he is, contrary to what she had believed, part of the “global elite.” She is a dyed-in-the-wool antisemite; what’s coming after Trump on the GOP side is very scary.
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend. MTG’s beef with Trump is over his betrayal of the “America First” movement and that he is, contrary to what she had believed, part of the “global elite.” She is a dyed-in-the-wool antisemite; what’s coming after Trump on the GOP side is very scary.
Also, the huge Star of David that Batya Ungar-Sargon is wearing here while nodding along to “raping 15-year-old girls is not pedophilia” is *not* good for the Jews. I know it’s not the main issue here but it’s terrifying. Jewish right-wingers like Batya have walked U.S. Jews into mortal danger.
Anybody else had on their bingo card Batya Ungar-Sargon as helping MAGA classify 15-year-olds as not children to claim that pedophilia isn’t really pedophilia? I’m not surprised. Congrats to the 92nd St Y for including her on a panel the other week!
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Also, the huge Star of David that Batya Ungar-Sargon is wearing here while nodding along to “raping 15-year-old girls is not pedophilia” is *not* good for the Jews. I know it’s not the main issue here but it’s terrifying. Jewish right-wingers like Batya have walked U.S. Jews into mortal danger.
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As I argue in Ch. 6 of my new book, one of the more strenuous acts of worldmaking undertaken in Yiddish children’s literature was to imagine a world in which it was safe for girls (including adolescents) to wander and adventure. Century-old fiction offers what the real world still can’t.
Anybody else had on their bingo card Batya Ungar-Sargon as helping MAGA classify 15-year-olds as not children to claim that pedophilia isn’t really pedophilia? I’m not surprised. Congrats to the 92nd St Y for including her on a panel the other week!
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
As I argue in Ch. 6 of my new book, one of the more strenuous acts of worldmaking undertaken in Yiddish children’s literature was to imagine a world in which it was safe for girls (including adolescents) to wander and adventure. Century-old fiction offers what the real world still can’t.
Anybody else had on their bingo card Batya Ungar-Sargon as helping MAGA classify 15-year-olds as not children to claim that pedophilia isn’t really pedophilia? I’m not surprised. Congrats to the 92nd St Y for including her on a panel the other week!
November 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Anybody else had on their bingo card Batya Ungar-Sargon as helping MAGA classify 15-year-olds as not children to claim that pedophilia isn’t really pedophilia? I’m not surprised. Congrats to the 92nd St Y for including her on a panel the other week!