Anna Shternshis is the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair in Jewish Studies and director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of critically acclaimed monographs, including Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939, When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin, and most recently co-author (together with Oleg Budnitsky, David Engel and Gennady Estraikh) of Jews in the Soviet Union: A History: War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939–1945.

"Professor Shternshis leads us through the challenging topic of Jewish cultural life in the Soviet Union with admirable humanity and pioneering interpretation." - Timothy D. Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century "Beautifully written and based on meticulous research, Anna Shternshis, an internationally renown scholar of Soviet Jewish Studies, tells a story that is at once heart-breaking and inspiring. A tour de force, this pioneering work will remain the standard account of postwar Soviet Jewry for decades to come." - Lynne Viola, author of Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine "This powerful, poignant history hums with the words and silences of Soviet Jews in the rollercoaster years that followed the Holocaust. From intimate details of daily life, shining moments of cultural production, and the grim realities of betrayal and oppression, Shternshis composes an epic as alarming as it is inspiring." - Doris L. Bergen, author of War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust

Anna Shternshis is the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair in Jewish Studies and director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of critically acclaimed monographs, including Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939, When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin, and most recently co-author (together with Oleg Budnitsky, David Engel and Gennady Estraikh) of Jews in the Soviet Union: A History: War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939–1945.

"Professor Shternshis leads us through the challenging topic of Jewish cultural life in the Soviet Union with admirable humanity and pioneering interpretation." - Timothy D. Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century "Beautifully written and based on meticulous research, Anna Shternshis, an internationally renown scholar of Soviet Jewish Studies, tells a story that is at once heart-breaking and inspiring. A tour de force, this pioneering work will remain the standard account of postwar Soviet Jewry for decades to come." - Lynne Viola, author of Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine "This powerful, poignant history hums with the words and silences of Soviet Jews in the rollercoaster years that followed the Holocaust. From intimate details of daily life, shining moments of cultural production, and the grim realities of betrayal and oppression, Shternshis composes an epic as alarming as it is inspiring." - Doris L. Bergen, author of War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust