Mikhail Krutikov is the Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan and a regular contributor to the Forward. You can reach him at [email protected].
Mikhail Krutikov
By Mikhail Krutikov
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Forverts in English I.B. Singer’s many newspaper articles are now available in English
In his nonfiction work, Singer often portrayed himself as the sole guardian of the annihilated world of Polish Jewry
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Forverts in English The blossoming and annihilation of the Jews in Tarnow
Before the Holocaust, Jews and Poles were on good terms, but under German occupation, many Poles aided the Nazis.
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Forverts in English The spa resort where European rebbes spent their summer vacations
Before World War I, the Marienbad resort had hotels for the rebbes, replete with glatt kosher restaurants and ritual baths
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Forverts in English How the Soviet Jew was made
In his novel, "Judgment," Dovid Bergelson describes how the pogroms convinced Jews to support the Soviet authorities.
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Culture A Pulitzer-winning novel drops the Netanyahus in an American college town
Joshua Cohen's 2021 novel won the 2022 Pulitzer for Fiction.
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Forverts in English Old Letters Revealed Her Parents’ Holocaust Experiences
Eleanor Reissa The Letters Project: A Daughter’s Journey Post Hill Press, 289 pp. –––––––––––––––––––––––– The Holocaust left considerable traces – some obvious, some hidden – on the Jewish collective soul, and although it took place far from America’s shores, it’s become an integral part of American history. Tens of thousands of survivors immigrated here, most…
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Forverts in English A writer seeks clues of his great-grandmother’s murder in 1913
Wayne Hoffman The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder Heliotrope Books, 2022 362 pp. The history of Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe often serves as a strong basis for creating American Jewish identity: Jews escaped persecution and pogroms in Russia and found a secure place of refuge in the “golden land.”…
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Forverts in English The ideological journey of the Forverts in the first half of the 20th century
Read this article in Yiddish. Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Gennady Estraikh Academic Studies Press, $119, 354 pp In the history of American journalism, the Forverts is a genuine outlier. Over the course of the first half of the last century, the…
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