Romania
Refugees in Neptun.
How socialists traded Jews for pigs.
The Bogdanovka massacre.
Ancestry records, memorial books, and more.
And why Yiddish plays attracted Gentile audiences.
A renowned scholar tells his story.
Hoping for Latkes, an Amateur Photojournalist Found Himself in the Maelstrom of Romania’s Revolution
Hanukkah during the downfall of Ceausescu.
Only interested in dead Jews.
A Moses who led thousands to the promised land.
In brilliantly charting the psychological effects of anti-Semitism on both its perpetrators and its victims, a newly translated 1934 novel outdoes even such master analysts as Freud and Proust.
Macroagressions and self-loathing.
After Auschwitz, three brothers discuss.
Nicolae Ceaușescu’s rule of Romania from 1965 to 1989 stood out for its brutality even among eastern-bloc dictatorships. Yet, unlike his Warsaw Pact colleagues, Ceaușescu. . .
Synagogue painters in 19th- and 20th-century Romania left behind an extraordinarily rich variety of images of the longed-for but never-seen Holy Land.