A life of resilience: Escaping Soviet antisemitism, Tatyana Yasnovsky built a life in San Francisco as she practiced psychiatry
For Tatyana Yasnovsky, a retired psychiatrist and émigré from the former Soviet Union, her arrival in America in the mid-‘70s was fraught and unforgettable. “I had two little kids on my hands and we were very anxious about the prospect of living in America,” she said. Prompted to leave Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, to escape ...