Omer Bartov, Israeli-born, renowned scholar of the Holocaust, has said lately that the genocide of Jews in the European 1940s ...

Filmmaker Yoav Potash arrived in Poland to document a modest ceremony in a forgotten town, but left with a profound mystery ...

The former home of pushcarts, pickle peddlers and textile wholesalers welcomes a new crop of Jewish spots to the Lower East ...

a book on Polish-Jewish relations during World War II which critiques Marzynski's film. Reactions to "SHTETL" also can be found at an interesting question-and-answer session with Marian Marzynski ...

The Elbe Day picture captured American and Russian armies uniting against the Nazis – and cemented two Jewish soldiers in ...

Cleveland Play House brings the production of “Fiddler on the Roof” from April 26 through May 25 to the Allen Theatre at Playhouse Square in Cleveland to close the 2024-25 ...

Courtesy of Jeff Thau Chaim Thau was born in Poland in 1921 in the small shtetl of Zobolotiv ... Poland was captured and killing squads rounded up Jewish residents. Chaim took off into the ...

"Concerning the Death Penalty for Illegally Leaving Jewish Residental Districts...Any Jew who illegally leaves the designated residential district will be punished by death. Anyone who ...

A shtetl in Russia was closer to the ideal of a totally Jewish society than the Israelite or Judahite kingdoms ever were. 2. When the Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom of Israel (the ten ...

Digby Baltzell’s “The Protestant Establishment” was published in 1964, his subject was being overtaken by those only a generation or two removed from the New World shtetl of Orchard Street.