Naya Lekht, at The Blogs

Jul 5, 2018, 11:10 PM

In the struggle for cultural preservation, ritual triumphs

Illustrative: Russian-speaking Jewish Americans at Limmud FSU in Princeton, NJ (Courtesy Ross Den)

Jokes and borscht from my parents' Russia pale in comparison to the customs and practices of Judaism

Dec 3, 2017, 10:15 PM

Inclusion for All But the Jews: Mining Academia for Anti-Semitism

“Inclusion for All, Except the Jews” is the title of a talk I delivered at a conference, in which I spoke about the urgent matter of anti-Semitism on college campuses. My goal was not to devolve into a diatribe...

About Me

Naya Lekht obtained her PhD in Russian literature from UCLA. Naya writes on Russian-Jewish literature and the Holocaust in the Soviet context Additionally, she studies and writes on varieties of anti-Semitism.