Eliyana Adler
No Tevye In Whitewashed Anatevka
The Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life in Liviv, Ukraine offers an ethnically cleansed version of the past.
Old Call for Old Things
A beat-up truck comes trundling down a Jerusalem block to collect used household items. The elderly Palestinian driver cries out in Yiddish, ‘Alte zakhn!’ or ‘Old things.’
In Memorializing a Pogrom, Poles Learn About Themselves
For many Jews, the city of Kielce is remembered as the brutal end of the centuries long encounter between Poles and Jews. It was here, on July 4 1946 that local Poles set upon a group of Holocaust refugees trying to rebuild their shattered lives, killing not just these victims but also any hope that staying in Poland was feasible for Jews after World War II.