Shtetl

A funny and heartbreaking alternate reality.

April 29 2021 12:01AM

A memoirist sheds light on the shtetl’s social conflicts.

Doba-Mera Medvedeva and Alice Nakhimovsky
Oct. 3 2019 12:01AM

Dovid Bergelson’s Yiddish masterpiece and his untimely death.

Oct. 12 2018 12:01AM

Documents and wax cylinders nearly destroyed by the KGB.

Jake Marmer
July 31 2018 12:01AM

“Above all a Jewish artist.”

John-Paul Stonard
July 13 2018 12:01AM

Of pogroms and animal carcasses.

Andrew Shea
June 11 2018 12:01AM

Shtetl Love Song.

Mikhail Krutikov
Dec. 12 2017 12:01AM

The most tragic Jewish writer of modern times.

Micha Yosef Berdichevsky and James Adam Redfield
Nov. 8 2017 12:01AM

Sunday—potatoes, Monday—potatoes . . .

Paul Glasser
Aug. 10 2017 12:01AM

A Purim story.

Sholem Aleichem
March 9 2017 12:01AM

A member of the Rothschild family finds himself in a small shtetl for the Sabbath.

S.Y. Agnon
June 17 2016 12:01AM

In his day, the novelist Jacob Dinezon enjoyed immense popularity with the Yiddish-reading public, and was admired by such contemporaries as Sholem Aleichem and I.. . .

Jan. 6 2015 12:01AM