Masha Gessen: Where the Jews Aren’t

Masha Gessen, a Russian-American journalist and LGBT activist, has focused her courageous prose on Vladimir Putin, the band Pussy Riot, and the terrorist Tsarnev Brothers. Gessen speaks about Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region - her heartbreaking account of the attempt to create a homeland for Jews in the Soviet Far East in the early 20th century, and its implications for Russian Jewish culture today.
Presented on September 22, 2016, by GC Public Programs, the Center for Jewish Studies, and CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies.
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[@hopesnopes]

I've watched so many talks by and interviews with Masha Gessen and also read many articles and essays . Gessen is always insightful and able to assess the current situation from a perspective with much knowledge of history. Thanks for this!

[@Beastw1ck]

Pride as the opposite of shame, as a reaction to being ostracized as opposed to actually asserting something positive is SUCH an interesting observation.

[@marina12345678911000]

Learned a a lot about Soviet Jews history and about Birobidzhan from this lecture! Thank you Masha!

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

16:16 "First among equals" - actually the phrase goes back 2000 years, and possibly much older.

[@vnvkv]

Спасибо

[@vetavoilman2848]

I am a jew not only because my parents were jewish, but because I embrace my ancestry. I did not leave russia to not be jewish. I became American to be welcomed as a jew.

[@EmilSosnin]

Crimea river

[@redrobin3630]

rude

[@robertcarter8600]

"Those Jews (in Ukraine and Belarus) weren't allowed to work the land..." (21:09) - MISTAKE. Masha is mixing personal physical farming, - the hard work Jews were perfectly "allowed" to do (the 1804 year Emperor's regulation distinguished five categories of the Jewish population - merchants, artisans, farmers, etc.), - and 0WNERSHIP of land with living on it farmers, - denigrated to SLAVERY level (only 1861 y. State reform banned slavery in Russia). What Masha means is consistent Russian nobility resistance to accept rich and/or educated Jews into upper society level and grant them the same privileges toward enslaved Christian Russian, Ukrainian and Belarussian population.

[@joanalima1711]

TODO APOIO A BOLSONARO

[@jullianerudisser8716]

Idiot!

[@roymoore9681]

Conservatives laugh at things like this. Truth tickles them pink.

[@Eddie_the_Husky]

And Bernies communist followers laugh at the gulags where millions of Christians were brutally r a p e d and m u r d e r e d 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@juliedean9990]

Pure ignorance

[@coreycox2345]

THey have a hard time keeping a straight face sometimes. But then, so do I, Ray Moore.

[@irahoppe3632]

Boring.

[@tamngo5117]

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A poor speaker as English is not her first language.

[@siangibby5771]

How can you call them a poor speaker? This is extremely articulate and erudite public speaking.

@@siangibby5771 she writes well but speaks poorly. I can tell you did not attend a good university in the 50s.

[@user-xp4jr1mq8t]

Really? I think she speaks quite well, actually.

@@user-xp4jr1mq8t she writes well but her speech is rambling and she speaks to herself, not to an audience. Maybe she still harbors doubts about her real identity..

[@corryjookit7818]

I hope she writes better than she speaks too hesistant

[@YuTuboTuTubas]

Maybe because is not her first language and as a writer thinks whats the proper word to say.

[@jeannenorris2280]

A mark of her caution and clarity of thought. She's profoundly articulate.

[@Bill-xx2yh]

Turn your speed UP. I do it all the time. She is a great speaker, but one I need "just a little faster".

[@wojtekjj1803]

The most incredible journalist. Queen of lies and defamation

[@incisivecommenter5974]

Why is that?

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

@@incisivecommenter5974 Does a bigot need a reason?

[@incisivecommenter5974]

@@sheilamacdougal4874 they sure can come up with excuses though