Sasha Senderovich

Sasha Senderovich is Assistant Professor of Slavic, Jewish, and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

He is the author of "How the Soviet Jew Was Made" (Harvard University Press, 2022).

His other published work includes a critical introduction and notes to the English-language translation of Moyshe Kulbak’s Soviet Yiddish novel "The Zelmenyaners: A Family Saga" (Yale University Press, 2013), as well as articles on contemporary English-language fiction by Russian Jewish émigré authors in the United States, including Gary Shteyngart, Anya Ulinich, Irina Reyn, and David Bezmozgis.

Together with Harriet Murav, he is the translator of the Yiddish writer David Bergelson’s "Judgment: A Novel" (Northwestern University Press, 2017) and, from Yiddish and Russian, of "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union" (under contract with Stanford University Press, expected in 2024).

In addition to his academic work, Sasha has published literary and cultural criticism in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Lilith, the Forward, the New York Times, the New Republic, The New Yorker’s Page-turner blog, and Jewish Currents

His personal website is: www.sashasenderovich.com