In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women began separate journeys of survival. One, a Polish-born woman from Bialystok, where virtually the entire Jewish community would soon be sent to the ghetto and from there to Hitler's concentration camps, was determined not only to live but to live with pride and defiance. The other, a Russian-born intellectual and introvert, would eventually become a high-level censor under Stalin's regime. At war's end, both women found themselves in Moscow, where informers lurked on every corner and anti-Semitism...
In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women began separate journeys of survival. One, a Polish-bor...
Since the mid-19th century, the Russian intelligentsia has shared a profound sense of responsbility for the fate of its country and a belief in the transformative power of the word - a belief reinforced by the state, which has relentlessly tried to suppress any form of intellectual dissent.
Since the mid-19th century, the Russian intelligentsia has shared a profound sense of responsbility for the fate of its country and a belief in the tr...
Masha Gessen discovered throughgenetic testing that she had the dreaded BRCA1 genetic mutation--the same mutation made famous recently by Angelina Jolie, which predisposes women to ovarian and breast cancer. As Gessen wrestled with a wrenching personal decision what to do with such knowledge she explored the landscape of a brave new world, speaking with others like her and with experts including medical researchers, historians, and religious thinkers.Blood Matters is a much-needed field guide to this unfamiliar and unsettling territory. It explores the way genetic information is...
Masha Gessen discovered throughgenetic testing that she had the dreaded BRCA1 genetic mutation--the same mutation made famous recently by Angelina Jol...
