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Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of nuclear powered submarines, boards the USS Nautilus from the Navy Tug 534 in the Narrows below Brooklyn, New York on August 25, 1958. (AP Photo/Pool)
June 11, 2022, 1:17 am
How a Jewish immigrant from the shtetl became the father of America’s nuclear Navy
Abrasive, controversial and tenacious, Admiral Hyman Rickover was called ‘the greatest engineer to ever live’ by Jimmy Carter. A new biography tells his incredible life story
By Rich Tenorio
'Fiddler on the Roof' director Norman Jewison (right) on set in 1970 with Chaim Topol, who played Tevye. (Courtesy of Zeitgeist Films)
April 29, 2022, 11:05 am
Documentary takes film lovers behind the scenes of making ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
‘Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen’ breaks down the movie magic of a beloved 50-year-old musical, and shows how the film brought gentile director Norman Jewison closer to Judaism
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: A typical shtetl-style house in Ukraine. (Sue Surkes)
August 22, 2021, 10:51 pm
Built for a film, a fake Ukrainian shtetl may become a museum to the real thing
The set for a historical WW II feature titled ‘Shttl,’ put up this summer on a lakeside near Kiev, has brought the Jewish villages that once dotted the Old Country back to life
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Cover of 'The Lost Shtetl' by Max Gross. (courtesy)
May 21, 2021, 7:28 am
Podcast: Escape reality into ‘The Lost Shtetl,’ the town that Hitler missed
Author Max Gross lifts up the veil on his mysterious book about a small Polish Jewish town that fell off the map for decades till it abruptly encountered modernity
Yaniv Iczkovits, author of 'The Slaughterman's Daughter.' (Photo by Eric Sultan)
May 16, 2021, 5:48 am
Israeli Wingate prizewinner’s novel brings female empowerment to the shtetl
Set in a 19th-century Pale of Settlement, Yaniv Iczkovits’s ‘The Slaughterman’s Daughter’ sees a woman trained to perform a job reserved for men bring her sister justice
By Anne Joseph
Illustrative: Photograph by Roman Vishniac of Jewish schoolchildren in Mukacevo, Eastern Europe, in the 1930s. (© Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography)
October 14, 2020, 3:39 am
Overlooked by Nazis, an untouched Jewish village in Poland remeets ‘real’ world
A must-read novel for fall, ‘The Lost Shtetl’ by first-time fiction writer Max Gross offers fable inspired by the great Yiddish writers that comforts and challenges in corona times
By Renee Ghert-Zand
'An Open Air Minyan' by Zoya Cherkassky (Courtesy of the artist)
May 4, 2020, 4:41 pm
Locked down? Open up to… artist Zoya Cherkassky
In departure from her signature works portraying Soviet immigrants in Israel, Ukrainian-born artist digs into the shtetl for inspiration for drawings created during COVID-19 crisis
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Rena Rossner, author of 'The Sisters of the Winter Wood,' September 20, 2018, in the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim in the West Bank. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
September 23, 2018, 4:17 am
Book world’s hot new fantasy author is an Orthodox Jew with a magical shtetl
Judaism is the jumping off point for Rena Rossner’s ‘The Sisters of the Winter Wood,’ a Yiddish-inflected retelling of Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Candlelighting for Shabbat in the current Broadway production of 'Fiddler on the Roof.' Jessica Hecht (center) plays Golde. (Joan Marcus)
August 5, 2017, 12:31 pm
‘Fiddler’ actress keeps the story going with debut novel
Alexandra Silber’s ‘After Anatevka’ follows characters Hodel and Perchik in a journey that often mirrors her own
By Cathryn J. Prince
Children at Tikva's kindergarten preparing materials for the Jewish festival of Lag B‘Omer, Odessa, Ukraine, May 12, 2017. (Photo Sue Surkes)
May 17, 2017, 5:59 am
Ukraine’s Jews walk narrow line between murderous past and uncertain future
As Ukrainian PM Volodymyr Groysman winds up a three-day visit to Israel, Jews back home try to cope with economic difficulties and the effects of war
By Sue Surkes
Yakov Sklarsky visiting the synagogue of Bershad March 9, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
March 28, 2017, 10:08 am
Passed over by Nazis and Communists, remnants of Ukraine’s last shtetl prepare to celebrate
Numbering just 50 today, the Jews of Bershad have managed to protect their 200-year-old clay synagogue through successive despotic regimes
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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