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I have always backed off from the word.
In the Thirties Europe meant French. But was it only then? Not in earlier centuries? A bloody lesson learned that Europe was Balmazújváros as well as Notre…
Gootie, my grandma, was a short, large-boned woman who made the kitchen her kingdom. She entered the living room only on special occasions—like Monday night to watch “I Love Lucy.” She had to think…
I remember the moment when it dawned on me that my father did not impress the world at large as a powerful figure. We were at a camera store on the Plaza—a faux-Andalusian shopping district that…
The day he was gone her suitor arrived. I don’t know what else to call him. He advertised himself as my uncle, but he didn’t have our famous cheekbones and Tatar eyes. He couldn’t have belonged to…
Chabibi
my vaybl
be on your guard
when you meet
a goy
he likes you nisht
be on your guard
when you meet
a goy
he likes you
be on your guard
when you meet
a yid
he smells you
chassids…
For fifty years, Jews of the West were protected by the shield of Nazism. As Bernanos wrote, Hitler had given antisemitism a bad name.We supposed this bad name to be permanent. Yet it…
Illustration of a baseball diamond in a short primer on the game of baseball published in the summer of 1909 in the Yiddish-daily Forverts (Forward). Some of the words in the picture are…
Can Jews remain in East-Central Europe? That is the question.
Hungary has between eighty and a hundred thousand Jews, Romania about twenty thousand, the rest of the countries a few thousand each. Jews…
As we look around us in contemporary America, we see large numbers of “Jews” or persons of Jewish origin (many of whom shed their recognizably Jewish names) in such areas as law, medicine…
How many Jews are there in Poland? This seems a simple and reasonable question, but the answer depends to a great degree on who is asking whom, when, and why. This should not be surprising: in Poland…