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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

Pre-war Jews

Representatives of the Pest Jewish Community visit the community's matzo bakery on Tuzer Street in the 1920s. (Photograph by Kalman Boronkay/ Courtesy CEU Press)
April 25, 2020, 9:14 am
Flavor of prewar Hungarian Jewish life captured in book of recipes and folklore
Andras Koerner, author of Jewish Book Award-winning ‘Jewish Cuisine in Hungary,’ uses untouched culinary traditions to explore centuries of cultural history before the Holocaust
By Rich Tenorio
A scene from 'Vilna,' a new play by Ira Fuchs. (Carol Rosegg)
March 21, 2019, 3:35 am
In new off-Broadway play, an exhausting, achingly human story of prewar Jewry
In ‘Vilna,’ playwright Ira Fuchs animates the turbulent history of an Eastern European Jewish center for a new generation losing sight of its bleak reality
By Jordan Hoffman
Austrian writer Stefan Zweig (public domain)
November 29, 2016, 9:47 am
Letters show paternal side of literary giant Zweig
A trove of previously unseen correspondence highlights Austrian Jewish author’s concern with the fate of Jews, admiration for Zionist visionary Herzl
By Jonah Mandel
Screenshot of children from the 1936 film 'Mir Kumen On (Children Must Laugh).' (Screenshot courtesy of Lobster Films)
November 19, 2016, 5:32 am
‘Saved’ Yiddish propaganda film is haunting glimpse into lost world of pre-war Polish Jewry
1936 documentary ‘Mir Kumen On’ unintentionally portends the horrors that awaited its subjects
By Jordan Hoffman
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