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Tatyana Sundeyeva

Tatyana Sundeyeva is a writer in San Francisco. She enjoys travel, literature, puns, and anything that can be found in a bakery. And not necessarily in that order.

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  • It’s not my humanity in question – it’s yours

    I've been unable to write since October 7. Every time I try, it comes out unfocused. So I'll try to keep this short. I saw many of the videos of the massacre of Israelis on October 7. I watched men drag the raped and lifeless corpse of a young woman through the street. I watched…

  • What Remains of Jews in Europe

    When I travel, I seek out local synagogues or places of Jewish significance. I want to see my global Jewish family and learn about how they live. But more and more, I find that I am learning only how they die.

  • How to Master Italian Style? Ask Luisa

    When I first saw a Luisa Spagnoli store, it was on a hot summer day in the glamorous, ritzy center of Florence. I was on my first trip to Italy, at seventeen, and marveling at all the stylish stores I’d never seen before.

  • The Legacy of Elie Wiesel

    I have never cried when a celebrity passed away and I rarely ever share such news on my social media, mostly because I rarely take it as a personal loss and if so, I prefer to grieve in private. This was not the case with the passing of Elie Wiesel. I learned of Elie Wiesel’s death in a…

  • Pros and Cons of Traveling to Italy

    As you may have guessed, I love to travel and Italy is one of my favorite countries to visit. Now that summer is here, Italy will be flooded with tourists from all over the world, including some of us here in the Bay Area. That said, Italy seems to be a country of contradictions—it provides…

  • How San Francisco Will Lose the Last of Us

    Much has been written about the changes San Francisco has undergone over the last few years. It’s noticeable even walking through my old neighborhood. Small, nondescript Asian stores have become trendy thrift shops. Kitschy old cafes have been redesigned with concrete, steel, and “reclaimed wood,” a term I have always found laughably pretentious. Ancient businesses,…

  • First Impressions: Virginia

    I recently enjoyed my first trip to the South and although it was but a brief weekend in Virginia, that’s what first impressions are all about. Right away, we noticed that people seemed chattier than they are in the Bay Area. At a late dinner in a diner, the staff started telling us their life…

  • 5 Expressions You’re (Probably) Using Wrong

    You know your idioms and your slang as well as any other hip urban street kid, but did you know you’re probably using some very common expressions totally wrong? Well, here’s your chance to learn what they really mean, and then go correct your friends. You’re welcome. 5) You’ve got another thing coming How it’s…

  • Hebrew for the Soul

    I decided to learn French when I cracked open a copy of War and Peace that had been given to me for my thirteenth birthday and noticed that approximately half of it was in French. The curious future-traveler in me enjoyed the daily escape French class offered and the pretentious thirteen-year-old enjoyed the prospect of reading…

  • Speak Memory Project Comes to San Francisco

    It was only a few years before my grandfather’s death that I learned his real name was Isaac. Somehow, I’m not sure when, he changed his name to Simon. It was around that time that I found out he was born in Romania and not in Moldova or Ukraine like I had assumed. He was born speaking Romanian…

  • Review: The Book of Aron

    The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard is the haunting story of a Jewish boy and his family living in Poland at the beginning of World War II. It is not the story of a special boy, or of a particularly interesting boy, but that is perhaps why the book is so touching. We see everything…

  • Catch the Jew: Tuvia Tenenbom on Israel, the Media, and Bad Jews, Part Two

    On the day I heard Tuvia Tenenbom give a talk, he leaned in to the first row and yelled slurs at a member of the audience. He was reenacting what had been yelled into his face by an anti-Israel protester at an event he covered. The audience chuckled uncomfortably but immediately recognized the narrative: either you’re…