Josh Tapper

@StanfordHistory | Soviet/post-Soviet Jewry | managing editor @CAJewishStudies | formerly @JTAnews @torontostar, and others.

[Josh Tapper @joshtapper]

Saddened to learn of the passing of scholar-activist Mikhail Chlenov, one of Soviet Jewry’s guiding forces in the late 1980s and early 1990s (and a man I’ve thought and written about a great deal in my recent academic life). May his memory be a blessing. https://t.co/qRdICNUOMY

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Stoked to share my recent @TheJDC talk on the org's outreach to Soviet Jews in the late 80s/early 90s, late-Cold War Jewish philanthropy, and the Joint's quest for a "global Jewish strategy" in the USSR!
https://t.co/GpRQm7rYNC

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Exceptional reporting on a series of tough subjects: WhatsApp founder Jan Koum, the American Jewish philanthropic ecosystem, and Chabad in the FSU. Thanks @AsafShaloo for the chance to provide some historical context!

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Read @AsafShaloo's full investigation — including previously unreported data on Koum’s charitable giving — here: https://t.co/NyxwrXAoQA

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@MaratGrinberg @JewishWonk @ZelenskyyUa @FareedZakaria Seconding this. @JewishWonk There is a lot of excellent recent scholarship (@MaratGrinberg here, but also Gershenson, Zeltser, ppl studying Yiddish culture) unpacking the various ways Jews in the Soviet Union *did* grapple with the Holocaust.

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Fab @bemporad reminder: In FSU "🇺🇦 ... inaugurated a new chapter in the Jewish history of the region, reminding us that history evolves and should not always be written through the specter of the violence of the past." (See dominant Jewish news narrative.) https://t.co/vNC3B3m2tR

[Miriam Jordan @mirjordan]

Fearing a backlash, immigrants from the former Soviet Union are starting to reject the label, "Russians," in an effort to distance themselves from Putin's attack on Ukraine. ‘People are going to start hating Russians,' an anxious immigrant told me. https://t.co/sp1YdrXgpt

[Joshua Yaffa @yaffaesque]

This is where we’re at: a Russian investment expert pulls out a bottle on live television to toast the end of the country’s capital markets and says he’s going back to working as a dress-up Santa Claus https://t.co/9wAFSSd1QQ

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Jewish charities have seen an influx of funding from Russia’s Jewish billionaires in recent years. Many of these donors are now being slapped with sanctions over their ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. THREAD:
https://t.co/22im1JnREV

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Deeply insightful @Hartman_Inst/@COJECO_NY look at the vicissitudes of American Jewish activism in the FSU + Russian-speaking Jewish comm. building in the US/FSU. In other words, why Ukraine matters to US Jewry beyond ancestral ties (tho that's imp't too): https://t.co/DW8UJjEF1G

[Gal Beckerman @galbeckerman]

Forgive me some hope in these dark days, but I was inspired by what Zelensky has come to represent and that it's a Jew who is filling this role.

https://t.co/RXFcDGv78h

[Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone @Mottel]

From a colleague: Shachrit prayers this morning in Odessa. 🙌

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Wonderful and loving @JTAnews tribute to Nate Geller, a force in recalibrating US Jewry's relationship to Soviet/FSU Jewish communities in the late '80s/early '90s. https://t.co/WM37mPsSSn

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Primary Source, a podcast by Jewish Studies @Stanford has dropped ep. 3, on Hannah Arendt and Eichmann in Jerusalem! Mazel tovs to @lilyrosesloane @aykelman @SJHammertimes, and our crack Arendt voice actor @katareni14. Check out the episode here: https://t.co/gNcM4b044n

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@JasonLustig @OUPHistory Mazel tov, Jason!

[GPG @GenesisPhilGrp]

A powerful reminder of the courage of Russian Jews and the tragedy of their life under the Soviet regime - an exhibit has just opened in @wendemuseum, with the support from @GenesisPhilGrp. Read the review in @jdforward and visit the exhibition in LA. https://t.co/isuW9c9p8R

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@lilyrosesloane Ha! It is NOT a reproduction of the entire trial transcript -- I swear.

[AJS @jewish_studies]

Listen now to the @stanfordjewishs Primary Source podcast series episode on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,

featuring AJS member guests Steven Zipperstein & @ElissaBemporad & host @joshtapper

Listen now: https://t.co/u86w4zNB8L

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@BulldogShadow @Stanford @WStatesCenter @splcenter Thank you a million times for sharing your knowledge with us!

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Produced by the amazing @lilyrosesloane + @SJHammertimes + @aykelman + @SOlidort (6/6)

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Thrilled to share the latest episode of Primary Source, by #JewishStudies at @Stanford, on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion! Check it out at https://t.co/mFazXELox2 + https://t.co/pVym6WgQZH + wherever you listen (1/6)

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And @emilyctamkin on the relationship between the Protocols and George Soros conspiracy theories (5/6)