“Mr. Shushani” reportedly knew the entire Hebrew Bible, Talmud and countless other texts by heart. His Nobel-laureate student never knew his real name.
For two decades, one of the worst massacres of the Holocaust was all but forgotten
The son of a famous performer, Kirill Chenkin fought in the Spanish Civil War and was recruited by Soviet intelligence prior to joining the faculty of Black Mountain College. He later became a ‘refusenik’ spokesman…
The complicated and all-but-forgotten legacy of Saul Borovoi
In the late 1990s, advertising executive Gary Wexler visited Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union that had suddenly rediscovered their own religious and national identity in the wake of the collapse of communism. These ads captured some of the powerful moments and images of that period in Jewish history…
New US secretary of state’s immigrant ancestor was a trailblazing Yiddishist, as well as a carpenter and masseuse
1871 article: “Hardly anybody knows that war affects the weather strongly and causes heavy rain falls, strong winds, thunder and lightning.”
As a young grad student 30 years ago, Prof. Brian Horowitz was an active witness to history
Most in Nikolaevsk-on-Amur had felt safe in one of Russia’s most isolated corners
After he freed the serfs, Alexander II was virtually deified by one leading Jewish newspaper
