The text pays homage to the poet Paul Celan and reflects on the impact of the Holocaust. It describes a journalist's encounter with young Germans who had lim...

Joseph Roth, a Jewish writer born in Brody in 1894, is portrayed as the chronicler of a lost world in the town's historical context. Brody, once a thriving J...

This article recounts the author's visit to Berdychiv, Ukraine, the hometown of Vasily Grossman, a renowned Jewish writer. The author explores the town's Hol...

This article discusses the experiences of Jewish writers during wartime, focusing on two figures: Sholem Aleichem, a famous Yiddish writer from the late 19th...

The author reflects on reading Isaac Babel's Odessa Stories in Odessa and how it shapes his perception of the city. He observes the similarities between the ...

Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, led to a massacre of Jews in the city of Mariupol. Elvira Borts, a 6-year-old Jewish g...

The article tells the story of Maks Levin, a war photographer who was killed by Russian soldiers during the war in Ukraine. Maks had initially been reluctant...

In the aftermath of the fall of communism in 1989, Jewish communities in Soviet satellite states such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, East Germa...

In 1989, during the fall of the dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu in Romania, a journalist reflects on his experience attempting to cover the events during Hanukkah...

In the fall of 1989, Prague experienced a metamorphosis towards democracy and freedom. The initial student-led protests on Nov. 17 against the Communist regi...