Romania
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.
Born in Czernowitz in 1913, the Romanian-Jewish artist Isiu Schärf painted landscapes from Siberia to Israel. A collector is planning to reintroduce his work to the public.