A memoirist sheds light on the shtetl’s social conflicts.
Dovid Bergelson’s Yiddish masterpiece and his untimely death.
Documents and wax cylinders nearly destroyed by the KGB.
“Above all a Jewish artist.”
Of pogroms and animal carcasses.
Shtetl Love Song.
The most tragic Jewish writer of modern times.
Sunday—potatoes, Monday—potatoes . . .
In memoriam.
A member of the Rothschild family finds himself in a small shtetl for the Sabbath.
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.. . .
The Israeli novelist S. Y. Agnon and J.R R. Tolkien, the English author of Lord of the Rings, do not appear to have much in. . .
In the two decades before World War II, American Jews occasionally returned to their or their parents’ Polish cities and shtetls, and sometimes they recorded. . .