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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

Eastern Europe

Handmade matzah being made at a factory in Dnipro, Ukraine, June 10, 2024. (Marcel Gascón Barberá/ JTA)
September 3, 2024, 10:13 pm
Baking matzah and defying blackouts, Dnipro’s Jews press on despite Ukraine war
Less than 125 miles from the front line in the ongoing battle after Russia’s invasion, operations in the Jewish community continue, providing needed support in harrowing times
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
From left: David Leopold, Sasha Wilson, Joseph Cullen, Lawrence Boothman and Clare Fraenkel in 'The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria,' now at 59E59 Theaters. (Carol Rosegg/ via JTA)
May 10, 2024, 10:44 am
New dark comedy for stage asks: Was Bulgaria’s King Boris III friend or foe to the Jews?
The paradoxical leader dabbled in fascism, was loved by his people, saved 50,000 lives while enacting antisemitic laws, and is the subject of a play running in NYC through June 2
By Elizabeth Karpen
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, File)
October 1, 2023, 5:11 am
Is Poland’s government shooting itself in the foot with its cooling stance on Ukraine?
Running for reelection, the ruling Law and Justice party is flailing in every direction to keep its populist credibility, but its latest pivot may have far-reaching implications
By Paul Hockenos
Roman Vishniac and his daughter Mara c. mid-1930s. (© Gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley)
May 11, 2023, 10:29 pm
Daughter helps turn lens on pioneering photographer father Roman Vishniac in new film
In ‘Vishniac,’ screening at DovAviv from May 11, filmmaker Laura Bialis shows a man who documented pre-Holocaust European Jewry, then reinvented himself as a self-styled scientist
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Hasidic Jewish pilgrims pray outside the tomb of late miracle rabbi Yeshaya Steiner, also known as Rebbe Shaya'le, at the Jewish cemetery in the village of Bodrogkeresztur, Hungary, on April 23, 2023, during a pilgrimage of Hasidic Jews on the occasion of Rabbi Steiner's 98th death anniversary. (ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP)
April 25, 2023, 5:06 pm
Followers of ‘miracle rabbi’ transform sleepy Hungarian village
Arriving by bus, plane, and even helicopter, 50,000 predominantly male Hasidic Jews attend increasingly popular pilgrimage to grave of wonder-working Rabbi Shayele
By Peter Murphy
A view of a Shabbat dinner at Moishe House Kyiv, which has housed displaced people during the Russian invasion. (Moishe House Kyiv/ via JTA)
July 13, 2022, 2:57 am
The Moishe House in Kyiv has become a safe haven during wartime
Usually a place where young people host Jewish events, these hubs have taken on added responsibilities since the Russian invasion, including providing food and shelter to the needy
By Michelle Cohen
British Jews marching in protest of the 1918-1921 pogroms. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Veidlinger)
December 21, 2021, 3:58 am
20 years before the Holocaust, pogroms killed 100,000 Jews – then were forgotten
‘In the Midst of Civilized Europe’ by Jeffrey Veidlinger revisits the brutal violence in 1918-1921 that portended a genocide of Europe’s Jews, and was soon overshadowed by it
By Rich Tenorio
The interior of the Great Synagogue of Slonim, Belarus, pictured in 2007. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
March 6, 2021, 9:32 am
In Eastern Europe, historical synagogues are sold for the price of a used car
Dilapidated structures, left empty after the Holocaust, are sold for cheap, but owners must carry out costly restorations and maintenance
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Members of the Wagabunda Scouts troop haul a fallen tree out of the the Jewish cemetery of Nowe Miasto, Poland, November 11, 2020. (Julia Bandurska/ via JTA)
November 20, 2020, 8:02 pm
Non-Jewish Polish leader works to clean up country’s forgotten Jewish cemeteries
While recent Independence Day celebrations saw xenophobic displays, Michał Laszczkowski and a group of Scouts — who have never met a Jew — use day to restore national history
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Alexander Vetshteyn prays at the Jurmala synagogue, October 30, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
December 27, 2019, 11:04 am
In Latvia, luxury synagogue opens in a beach resort for oligarchs
First Jewish house of worship built since the Holocaust, which only 200 of the country’s 90,000 Jews survived, fulfills an essential function, but is subject to seasonal woes
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The closed gate of the only active synagogue of Tiraspol, Transnistria. (Courtesy of Roman Yanushevsky/Channel 9 via JTA)
September 21, 2019, 5:53 pm
In breakaway Transnistria, the few Jews left eye an escape
Jews in disputed sliver of land in Eastern Europe say that while freedom of worship is assured and anti-Semitism is marginal, many still want to leave for economic reasons
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Latvian star Arturs Skrastins, left, portrays Latvian Holocaust hero and Righteous Among the Nations member Zanis Lipke in the new historical drama film 'The Mover.' (Courtesy Washington Jewish Film Festival)
August 20, 2019, 4:15 am
Blue-collar Latvian ‘Schindler’ saved dozens with few resources of his own
Historical drama ‘The Mover’ tells the story of Žanis Lipke, who managed to hide and transport 60 Jews with limited means, while risking execution by occupying Nazi forces
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative: Rabbi Moshe Azman discussing with architects the construction of a Holocaust museum near the Babi Yar monument in Kiev, Ukraine on March 14, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
August 7, 2019, 11:28 pm
In Eastern Europe, Holocaust museums are missing from key historical sites
Nationalist revisionism, anti-Semitism, lack of funds, personal animosities and incompetence are among the factors contributing to the lack of proper recognition, say activists
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Scene from a Nazi documentary filmed in the Theresienstadt ghetto during the summer of 1944 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
August 5, 2019, 11:51 pm
74 years since liberation, a visit to Theresienstadt finds an eerie ghost town
Unique in the Nazi empire, Theresienstadt was both a way-station to Auschwitz for Jews and a well-planned show camp to deceive diplomats about the Holocaust
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative: Children play musical instruments during the celebration of Hanukkah at the Kharkiv Choral Synagogue, in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, December 5, 2018. (Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
May 15, 2019, 4:37 pm
Who are the Jews of Ukraine?
Producing Hasidic leaders and renowned intellectuals, Jewish people have settled in what is now modern-day Ukraine since the 9th century — but their lives weren’t always easy
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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