(Under construction......coming soon)

Moderated by Alla Efimova and Anna Muza   The forum is a place for the discussion of immigration experience past and present. We feel that the story of Soviet Jewish immmigration, the so-called Third Wave, is obscured by abundance of self-perpetuating commonplaces. For instance: "In Russia we were Jews and here we became Russians" or "Emigration destroyed the intensity of friendship we used to treasure." Behind these commonplaces are genuine but not-yet-articulated insights into the history of Jews in the former Soviet Union, into the experience of migration, into the traumas of adjustment to a new culture. Challenging the common, we want to bring out the uncommon, individual, and specific. We wish to explore not only the conscious but the unconscious-our dreams, fears, nightmares, and fantasies. Every week we are inviting you to respond to a suggested topic which will be posted on Tuesday nights. You can remain anonymous or sign your entries. This collective text will comprise a part of The Virtual Archive. Any emigration is marked by losing, repressing, forgetting; this is one way of finding, retrieving, remembering.