Find a Jew (2022)

For a long time, Jews were considered “the Soviet Union’s greatest secret”: invisible and yet shrouded in myth. While some attributed to them a secret influence that reached even the highest echelons of power, others searched for hidden Jewish traces in literature, music, and film. But what did it actually mean to live as a Jew in the Soviet Union? How did Jewish identity endure when religion, language, and traditions had largely been lost? Cultural critic and journalist Anna Narinskaya embarks on a personal quest to uncover the traces of this history. Through conversations with eyewitnesses, friends, relatives, and scholars, she explores the hidden history of Soviet Jewry—and uncovers surprising contradictions between memory, reality, and legend.