East European Jewry

A window into the lives of ordinary Jews.

Glenn Dynner
Jan. 3 2025 12:01AM

The Jane Austen of Hlusk.

Dec. 23 2024 12:01AM

A sign of Prague’s thriving Jewish community.

Shira Li Bartov
Oct. 21 2024 12:01AM

When a friendly football game was a step too far.

Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky
May 31 2024 12:01AM

The rescue of the Lubavitcher rebbe, and the last stand of the Lublin yeshiva.

Glenn Dynner
May 10 2024 12:01AM

Intentional Beauty.

Laura Hodes
Feb. 2 2024 12:01AM

Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin and Ḥayyim Soloveitchik.

Meir Bar-Ilan
Aug. 8 2023 12:01AM

How socialists traded Jews for pigs.

Danny Trom
March 20 2023 12:01AM

The dean of Yiddish versus Hitler’s professors.

David Roskies
Jan. 30 2023 12:01AM

The UN recognizes slivovitz.

David Klein
Dec. 7 2022 12:01AM

Rabbis had figured previously in Yiddish literature, but they were usually secondary characters.

David Fishman
Oct. 19 2022 12:01AM

The other great escape.

Yehuda Geberer
July 28 2022 12:01AM

Whole communities were wiped out in a matter of hours or days, making genocide seem possible.

Magda Teter
June 27 2022 12:01AM

The great Jewish writer evoked a city—now under threat from Russia’s armies—with a character of its own that has entered into folklore, literature, and the popular imagination.

April 18 2022 12:01AM