What's Eating Russian Artists?

Tel Aviv Review

English - November 04, 2019 10:30 - 35 minutes - 25.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 141 ratings
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Liza Rozovsky, culture reporter for Haaretz newspaper, writes about contemporary Russian culture under ongoing forms of political oppression, alongside artistic expressions of the experiences former Soviet immigrants to Israel.

Her subjects touch on alienation, marginalization, subversion and defiance in literature, drama, art and politics.

This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.