@SoundCloud I need urgent help - I lost the ability to access my original soundcloud account (semochka). Password reset isn't working. I filed a ticket but need someone to assist ASAP. Could someone please get in touch?
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sam shokin
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In honor of #Pride month, my latest for @tabletmag: a profile of silent film and Broadway starlet Alla Nazimova, aka the most famous actress you've never heard of: tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…
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This Saturday 3/19! ✊ NYC: join us for the #HandsOffUkraine protest at Brighton Beach at noon. The post-Soviet diaspora must stand with Ukraine against Russia’s aggression. RSVP and share: fb.me/e/6GaYXAZVh
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Southern Brooklyn memoirs, continued. My latest for @tabletmag!
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At Home in the Vertical Shtetl: As a child, I yearned to leave southern Brooklyn’s enclave of Soviet Jewish immigrants. But watching old home movies decades later, I saw the place in a new light. tabletmag.com/sections/commu…
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To Ukraine With Love: As the daughter of Soviet Jewish immigrants, I used to call myself ‘Russian’—but a trip to Kyiv offered me a new perspective, and a new language tabletmag.com/sections/commu…
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@elivalley Amazing work. I'd never heard of Lola but want to learn more -- alas, there's little information online. Any tips where I can see his cartoons/read his bio?
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@nationalgridus We have no gas for a week (NYC). Had a scheduled appt this am. Guy showed up earlier than expected, and while we were calling the super to come meet him, he left without telling us. Now customer service says we have to wait another week. WE NEED GAS. Please help!
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Shkoyekh to @samshokin, who does a lovely job of unpacking the fraught journey to reclaiming Yiddish, especially for folks in the post-Soviet diaspora (With a nice shout out to my Haaretz neo-Bundism piece)
tabletmag.com/jewish-life-an…
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Love this piece about punk music in Yakutia by @SabraAyres. Now I want to go there. latimes.com/world/la-fg-ru…
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"Aside from the organ harvesting, the homophobia, the anti-evolution ballad, and the Karl Marx apparition, the thing I found most odd about my Shen Yun experience in Houston was the hosts’ explanation of Chinese classical dance." newyorker.com/culture/cultur…?
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I'm on Twitter! Or rather, no longer dormant. Pinning this here in the meantime, my latest for @tabletmag: tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-an…
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How the Center of a Russian-Guitar Culture Ended up in the American Midwest
via @samshokin
tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-an…
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