Editorial: Jews of the Black Hills
Visitors to Mount Moriah Cemetery in Deadwood, South Dakota, are attracted by the graves of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity ...
Tag: Ukraine
A royal deception in service to humanity
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER In an unusual contrast to gentiles saving Jews from the Nazis, Jewish Pepi Mehlberg saved Poles. ...
Editorial: Ukrainians flee their homeland
In late March, I had a chat with Jakub Łysiak, who’s the general tour manager with the Taube Jewish Heritage ...
Editorial: In solidarity with Ukraine
Like many American Jews, I’m here because Cossack militia men wanted to kill my grandparents. They fled to the United ...
A Latin American Jewish family saga
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Ellis Island tends to dominate thinking about Jews’ immigration to America. But there’s another America. Who ...
Looking for answers among the remains
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Persistent and resourceful Esther Safran Foer would have made a fine detective. I Want You to ...
In Ukraine, aid for needy Jews comes with a catch
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ ODESSA, Ukraine (JTA) — Alina Feoktistova always knew she was Jewish, but the first time she sought ...
Rabbi helps dedicate a memorial to Ukrainian group that collaborated with the Nazis
By SAM SOKOL (JTA) — One side called it a fitting compromise. The other said it was a whitewash of Ukraine’s ...
Buczacz: The life and death of a Jewish town
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Little is needed to shatter the veneer of ethnic coexistence, as tragically illustrated in Buczacz, once ...
Make-believe Jewish weddings
In Eastern Europe, nostalgia for the Jews includes fake Jewish weddings By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ (JTA) — Nostalgia for Jews is ...
