
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 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].
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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…
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.”…
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…
“The past dominated our present,” writes Michael (Menachem) Fox in his compelling coming-of-age memoir as a child of Holocaust survivors from Poland. And indeed, his story isn’t meant to be a chronological narrative. A professional psychologist, he relates his experiences and feelings through isolated episodes, which had imprinted themselves on his memory and left traces…
אַ רעפֿעראַט אויף דער טעמע איז געווען איינער פֿון אַ סך לעקציעס אויף דער „איי־דזשיי־עס“ קאָנפֿערענץ אין דעצעמבער.