Yale Strom
By Yale Strom
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News When ‘Angel’ Crushed by Crane Was a Jewish Boy Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
In December of 1988, I traveled behind the Iron Curtain to research my book, A Tree Still Stands about Jewish youth in the Eastern Bloc, and how they felt being Jewish during this time of rapid change before the fall of the Berlin Wall. As I walked down the narrow cobblestone streets, wending my way…
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News Stalin’s ‘Jewish State’ Lays Plans
“We are traveling to a distant land, Our father has the best plan. To answer the age-old question: Where can Jews live without trouble? Past Siberia, next to China: Birobidzhan.” I wrote these lyrics after my first trek to the Jewish Autonomous Region in 2000. I had gone to film this fascinating but little-known piece…
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