Welcome! I am a historian specializing in Soviet and post-Soviet Jewish life and culture, as well as the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. I am a research associate at the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University, in Toronto, and doctoral candidate in Jewish history at Stanford University.

My academic work also explores Soviet Jewish immigration to and resettlement in Canada, an interest that has led me to leadership positions at the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies and the scholarly journal Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes.

I also work as a journalist. My articles and reviews on contemporary Jewish life have appeared in the Jewish Dailiy Forward, Tablet, Moment, Contact, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. I have been on staff at the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest-circulation daily, and written for the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, and the Washington Post, among other publications.