When I moved out to California from New York City to pursue the academic route, select people would say versions of: “Why would a Jew
Youth in Warsaw Protest Against Fascism in their Homeland during the commemoration of the anniversary of Poland’s assumption of independent statehood in 1918 after 123
It kind of sounds like its out of the 19th century, but it actually just happened. In 2002, Prince Charles of Wales visited Poland and
I’m sure you’ve tried one. Its that delicious chocolate-covered marshmallow treat, the one that lies there wrapped in foil on tops of piles of Hebrew
When I speak with old and new friends about Yiddish culture, there are certain associations that always seem to surface. When it’s not Fiddler on
A Jewish visitor to Rebbe Nachman’s grave has been murdered by a local Ukrainian. The murder culminates a series of tense incidents between Jewish participants
The blog Holocaust in the Baltics, edited by the venerated Yiddish linguist and cultural activist Dovid Katz, has an interesting rundown of the recent commemorative
L’kovod the aseres yamey tshuva, I present two interesting writers who converted from Judaism to Christianity. Let’s put it this way: They had to worry
Although Jean Epstein’s films are all but lost on today’s Jewish youth, his early 20th century Warsaw/Paris aesthetic and stylistic contributions are crawling all over
It’s been exactly one week since my return to California. I was in Warsaw, Krakow and some small villages near Nowy Targ, in the heart