Eliyana Adler is a student and teacher of East European Jewish history.
Eliyana Adler
By Eliyana Adler
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Community No Tevye In Whitewashed Anatevka
The wooden houses with their straw roofs, their low beams, and crooked steps, solid wooden churches of dark wood with curved domes and cupolas, creaky old chicken coops and mud paths seemed both distant and familiar. At any moment one expects Tevye to appear from behind a corner nudging his horse, teasing his wife, or…
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News Old Call for Old Things
Each Friday, a beat-up truck comes trundling down our Jerusalem block to collect used household items. “Alte zakhn! Alte zakhn!” the loudspeaker rings out. Then comes a list of items of interest: couches, chairs, tables, beds. All these are announced in Hebrew. Only that initial call, “Alte zakhn!” — literally, “old things” — is in…
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News 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…
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