Eastern Europe Archives

05 Jan

2021 January/February, Jewish World

The Yiddish Yiches of a New Top Diplomat

Posted by

Carlin Romano

December 22, 2021

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Should a jealous Jewish store owner keep tabs on his beautiful young wife, seemingly smitten with “a college man”?

Jewish Photo Album saved from Holocaust, found, and returned to family

15 Mar

2019 March-April, Jewish World, Visual Moment

Visual Moment | Lost & Found: Solving a Holocaust Mystery

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Diane M. Bolz

April 4, 2021

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Lost and Found exhibit at Yeshiva University's museum traces the story of a photo album smuggled out of Lithuania's Kovno Ghetto, from its original disappearance through the investigation that found the owner's descendants teaching Yiddish in the United States.

29 Jan

Jewish World, Winter Issue 2019

What Will Be the Fate of the House of Fates?

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Liam Hoare

December 23, 2021

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The House of Fates is ground zero in a struggle over history and memory, raising questions that are pertinent today not only in Hungary but also across post-communist Europe. The struggle is about the politicization of the Holocaust by an increasingly autocratic government and about who gets to tell its story, and how.

10 Apr

Latest, World

Jews and the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution

Posted by

Liam Hoare

April 10, 2018

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Twenty-first century Ukraine, as Marci Shore notes in her extraordinarily deft, astute, and riveting new account of the dramatic 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, The Ukrainian Night, was too “heir to the grandeur” of the intentions of Nazism and Communism.

16 Jan

Jewish World, Latest

Photo Essay | Eli’s Town

Posted by

Elliot Burg

December 2, 2020

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I decided to to seek out and capture images of the place in Eastern Europe where my Jewish grandfather and namesake Eli (pronounced “Ellie”) had come from.

17 Apr

Jewish World, Latest

Photo Essay: Inside the Story of ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’

Posted by

Nadine Epstein

August 14, 2019

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In 2014, inspired by reading Ackerman's book, Moment editor Nadine Epstein, visited the zoo as a guest of the foreign ministry of Poland.

13 May

2016 May-June, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Visual Moment

Reframing Roman Vishniac’s Legacy

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Diane M. Bolz

July 25, 2019

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Maya Benton was a high school senior living in Los Angeles when the Russian-American photographer Roman Vishniac’s first posthumous book, To Give Them Light, came out in 1993. Renowned for his iconic images of Eastern European Jews taken between the two World Wars, Vishniac had died three years earlier at age 92.

03 Mar

2015 March-April, World

The New Sultan of Turkey

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Moment

May 26, 2017

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Former Prime Minister—now President—Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist Party are more powerful than ever. Is the nation’s democracy under siege? By Yigal Schleifer Adiminutive 63-year-old with dyed...

15 Sep

2014 September/October, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Becoming Jan Karski

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Nadine Epstein

May 30, 2017

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One of the lesser-known heroes of World War II was Jan Karski (1914-2000), an officer in the Polish Underground resistance who infiltrated the Warsaw Ghetto twice... This past April, actor David Strathairn took on the role of Karski in a dramatic reading of Derek Goldman’s play, Remember This: Walking with Jan Karski, at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

04 Sep

2014 September/October, Jewish World

Our Man in Warsaw: Konstanty Gebert

Posted by

Sarah Breger

May 30, 2017

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Born in 1953 when Poland was under communist rule,Konstanty Gebert viewed his Jewish lineage as a “biographical accident” until he was 15.

04 Sep

2014 September/October, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Jewish World

2014 Spotlight on Poland

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Nadine Epstein

May 30, 2017

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PREVIEW OF THE CORE EXHIBITION OF THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS My personal journey to Jewish identity has taken place by way of the past. Like many immigrants from Eastern Europe, my grandparents and great-grandparents rarely spoke of the Old Country, leaving me to spend years trying to piece together the clues. This longing to know more about my family’s origins led me to genealogical research and DNA testing, to towns and shtetls in Ukraine, and to Moment.

03 Sep

2014 September/October, World

Hungary at the Turning Point

Posted by

Yigal Schleifer

May 31, 2017

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It’s a few days before the May 25 European Parliament elections, and the streets of Budapest are awash with colorful campaign posters urging Hungarians to vote for delegates to represent their country in Brussels. It would be a shining display of democracy in action, a comforting reminder of Hungary’s ten-year membership in the European Union after decades of repressive communist rule, if not for the fact that...