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0 History Culture

What I learned from my father’s strange journey from Poland to Algeria, Kazakhstan and the California desert

Dvora Treisman in JTA · 20 Nov

Dvora Treisman recounts the adventurous life of her father, Rafa Feliks Buszejkin, a non-observant Polish Jew born in 1912 in Warsaw.

0 History Communities

What I learned from my father’s strange journey from Poland to Algeria, Kazakhstan and the California desert

Dvora Treisman in JTA · 20 Nov

Dvora Treisman reflects on her late father's extraordinary life journey from Warsaw to California through his memoirs and her own discoveries.

0 Television/Film Holocaust

Filmmaker Allan Novak turns the camera on his family: the oldest living Holocaust survivors in the world

Not That Kind of Rabbi · 20 Nov

Veteran filmmaker Allan Novak created "Crossing the River: From Poland to Paradise," a documentary about his family, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor siblings who remarkably survived by being deported to Siberia.

0 Culture Holidays

I love Chrismukkah and I’m not afraid to admit it

Jewish Chronicle · 14 Nov

The piece explores the hybrid celebration of "Chrismukkah," where Christmas traditions blend with the Jewish festival of Chanukah.

0 Education Philosophy

Consumer Culture Has No Place at College

Sapir · 1 Nov

The article delves into how consumer culture has infiltrated and diluted the mission of modern universities, shifting focus from genuine educational pursuits to transactional exchanges between students and institutions.

0 Culture History

Exhibit highlights impact of ’The Dybbuk’ for the past 100 years

Jennifer A. Stern in Forward · 28 Oct

S. An-ski's play The Dybbuk has profoundly influenced Jewish culture since its premiere in 1920, and it continues to captivate audiences a century later.

0 Culture Politics

A painful split in the Yiddishist community since Oct. 7

Rukhl Schaechter in Forward · 26 Sep

The piece explores the growing ideological divide within the Yiddishist community over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, heightened since the Hamas attacks on Israel in 2023.

0 Culture History

Still no NYC monument for the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust

Chana Pollack in Forward · 27 Apr 2022

In the decades since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, New York City remains without a dedicated monument to the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.

0 Music Holocaust

Bringing Jewish Music Back From the Ashes of Kristallnacht

Forward · 17 Dec 2016

Hirsch Lewin's Semer Records, originally founded in 1932 in Berlin, sought to preserve a rich diversity of Jewish music amidst rising Nazi oppression.

0 Culture History

Luba Kadison Buloff, 99, Last Survivor of Yiddish Theater Company

Forward · 12 May 2006

Luba Kadison Buloff, a celebrated Yiddish theater actress and the last surviving member of the Vilna Troupe, passed away at the age of 99.