Writer. Speaker. Mostly Soviet-Russian Jewish food, immigration, culture. Words in @globeandmail @tabletmag @heatedmag @jdforward @chatelaine @todaysparent
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Joined April 2010
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Lea Zeltserman retweeted
Thank you for highlighting "When Food Betrayed the Jews"! lilith.org/articles/when-foo…
March #SovietSamovar is out! Musings from me on ghostly objects in my basement, hamantaschen recipes + great reads from @ruthmadievsky @katyaapekina @shbarocas @LLuxner @AllanLevine12 @MaratGrinberg @Kveller @LilithMagazine @JTAnews
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Struggling to find records of your Jewish ancestors in Belarus? @TheTogetherPlan archivists are ready to help! Join us for a presentation by TTP’s Archive Services Caseworker Carl Kaplan (Boston) & Archive Services Coordinator Vasily Zaitsau (Minsk). bit.ly/3PfSTTC
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It's hamantaschen week! If you're looking for something savoury, I've just posted a mushroom hamantaschen recipe that imagines how #hamantaschen might have developed if Soviet-Jews had been permitted religious freedom. #JewishFood #recipes #Purim leazeltserman.com/mushroom-s…
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Join me @latimesfob or, better yet, give me tips for my 1st time! I’ve heard legends about the green room… And of course, if you’re into historical fiction, come to Sunday talk with @melissachadburn @crystalhanak @nguyen_p_quemai & Myriam Chancy. #bookfest
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My picks for Women’s History Month @JewishBook are MOTHER DOLL by @katyaapekina and THE POSSIBILITIES by @ygoldlove jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-dai… – at San Francisco, CA
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Honored to be included! Thank you for Soviet Samovar @zeltserman !
SovietSamovar is back. I talk about cooking habits & nostalgia, why I stopped making soups & share a rassolnik (aka pickle soup) recipe. Plus, fab work from @VladaTeper @IamAlinaAdams @AnnaFridlis @PuncturedLines @sashavasilyuk @MashaDC @MaratGrinberg
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Lea Zeltserman retweeted
Thank you for the shout out!!!
SovietSamovar is back. I talk about cooking habits & nostalgia, why I stopped making soups & share a rassolnik (aka pickle soup) recipe. Plus, fab work from @VladaTeper @IamAlinaAdams @AnnaFridlis @PuncturedLines @sashavasilyuk @MashaDC @MaratGrinberg
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Lea Zeltserman retweeted
Moved to be included! Thank you @IamAlinaAdams and thank you so much @zeltserman !
Yay! @zeltserman calls my YouTube series binge-worthy! Check it out at the link, along with some brilliant writing by @SashaVasilyuk, @MashaDC,@AnnaFridlis, @VladaTeper & all the post-#Soviet/#Jewish content you had no idea you needed! Plus, soup!
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Lea Zeltserman retweeted
Yay! @zeltserman calls my YouTube series binge-worthy! Check it out at the link, along with some brilliant writing by @SashaVasilyuk, @MashaDC,@AnnaFridlis, @VladaTeper & all the post-#Soviet/#Jewish content you had no idea you needed! Plus, soup!
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Lea Zeltserman retweeted
"many Soviet Jews grew up eating ham, changing their names to Slavic ones, and putting up a New Year’s tree in December (it has nothing to do with Jesus!)"
Find out more in this wide-ranging conversation between @MashaDC and @zeltserman
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Lea Zeltserman retweeted
They could make sure that 5-10 TRC calls to action are enacted every year until they're done, then move on to the RCAP recommendations, then MMIWG2S Inquiry recommendations. They could do SO much. Instead, they want Canadians think land acknowledgements & orange shirts are enough
Lea Zeltserman retweeted
What I hate about Truth & Reconciliation Day is how the government and politicians, who have power to make real change, have encouraged everyday Canadians to think reconciliation is achieved through individual capitalist consumption. Buying orange shirts and donuts, for example.
Lea Zeltserman retweeted
Please join us for a series of readings/conversations with Ukrainian writers, poets, journalists, and translators. Runs between now and February, to start next week. To register: dartgo.org/ukrainevoices
Lea Zeltserman retweeted
📚NEWS!
I'm thrilled to tell you that @BloomsburyBooks will publish my memoir, COLD KITCHEN - On Departures, Arrivals and Coming Home to the Table, in spring 2024. Weaving in and out of my subterranean kitchen, it opens in Uzbekistan and ends in Ukraine.
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Lea Zeltserman retweeted
"[L]ooking for reviews of the following recent and upcoming titles. Reviewers should have some expertise in terms of their chosen work [...] Each piece [...] undergoes a rigorous editing process [...] We especially welcome reviews of Ukrainian titles."
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Lea Zeltserman retweeted
Thanks to Maria Bloshteyn, @mvfierce, @luba_mark, @_mariareva, @JZarankin, @zeltserman for their beautiful words and powerful poetry fundraiser @PuncturedLines to benefit #UkraineTrustChain. #StandWithUkraine
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I got a small glimpse into this book and can tell you all it's going to be powerful and moving. Huge congrats, @SashaVasilyuk, and can't wait to read it!
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Once, [the books] provided the continuity between the two vastly different worlds: one that was forever lost to us and the other that we were slowly learning to inhabit.
ICYMI: an essay by Maria Bloshteyn about the books that traveled from the USSR to Canada.
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A Motherland of Books: An Essay by Maria Bloshteyn puncturedlines.wordpress.com…
Lea Zeltserman retweeted
“…We did not eat in Yiddish, we ate in Russian”.
@zeltserman put it so perfectly in her latest edition of @sovietsamovar when describing I HATE BORSCH!
Thank you, Lea! #borsch #PictureBooks #newbookrelease
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Riga sprats, decomposing Lenin, birch trees, house slippers, Miss USSR…
Check out this amazing reading from Soviet-Canadian writers @zeltserman @luba_mark @_mariareva @mvfierce @JZarankin, Maria Bloshteyn. Hosted by @PuncturedLines puncturedlines.wordpress.com…