Soviet-Born

“Challeng[es] comforting American Cold War clichés as well as the narrow norms of generalized Jewish genealogies.”
— Werner Sollors, Harvard University

“Krasuska’s beautifully written, revelatory study of twenty-first century Soviet-.born Jewish writers…demonstrates the broader resonances of the alternative literary archive it uncovers.”

— Sarah Casteel, Carleton University

“Soviet-Born offers an exciting and much-needed reframing of the Jewish American canon.”
— Alison Schachter, Vanderbilt University

From Dana Mihăilescu in Modern Language Review:

“Thoroughly grounded in comparative literary theory as well as memory, gender, and sexuality studies, Karolina Krasuska’s book challenges, rethinks, and expands our understanding of Jewish American literature by focusing on fictional works by Soviet-born Jewish American authors from 2002 to 2022 and constructing the analysis around the axes of gender and migration.”