East European Jewry
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.
The name is comical and magical at once, designating a city of broad boulevards and fancy shop windows known to Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye the dairyman and others.
The Mosaic columnist joins us to talk about her new podcast and the poetry and literature it will explore.
In the mega-shtetl of Berdichev.
Vilna’s Jewish graveyard and its martyred caretaker.
The Strashun Library, and the heroism of those who saved it.
The Chmielnicki uprising left thousands of Jews dead, and changed intercommunal dynamics.
What Lucy Dawidowicz learned about the breakdown of social order and its effects on the Jews.
Hermann Struck’s World War I.
Ḥasidic women were patrons, pilgrims, and keepers of traditions.
S.Y. Agnon’s “Mistake.”
The “black wedding.”
A Hanukkah uprising in Czechoslovakia.
Hoping for Latkes, an Amateur Photojournalist Found Himself in the Maelstrom of Romania’s Revolution
Hanukkah during the downfall of Ceausescu.