VIDEO: Violinist Itzhak Perlman tells us his favorite Passover recipes. Then see us make them.
The virtuoso took some time out of his busy teaching schedule to share childhood memories of his mother's cooking
The virtuoso took some time out of his busy teaching schedule to share childhood memories of his mother's cooking
Documentarian Marian Marzynski's films included 'Shtetl' and 'A Jew Among the Germans'
A Holocaust image on eBay is generic to most bidders. Unless one of the men in the picture is your cousin.
Earlier this year, the Forverts asked readers to submit anecdotes and photos of their favorite heirlooms. Heirlooms are not only a way of keeping us connected to our past; they are also a wonderful way to transmit family history to our children and grandchildren The response to our search was an enthusiastic one and 22…
In Poland these days, the head of the country’s highest-profile Holocaust remembrance group is warning Poles that attacks on their country are coming from the “leftist Jewish media.” He says that the stories of Poles who actually helped Jews during World War II were not told until he arrived, despite decades of work in this…
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The extreme poverty that Jews once experienced in the cities and towns of Eastern Europe has been well documented, but what exactly was their diet like? According to the memoirs of Hirsh Abramovich, a Yiddish writer in pre-war Vilna, the Jews in Lithuania were probably the poorest…
Fending off charges that he has promoted anti-Semitism, Poland’s defense minister Thursday cited the support he and his government give to Israel and comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praising Poland for this support. In a lengthy email to the Forward, a spokesman for Antoni Macierewicez cited recent talks between Netanyahu and leaders of…
Leaders of Poland’s Jewish community were deeply upset last month when President Trump defied precedent to be the first American leader in decades to forego visiting the monument that commemorates the doomed revolt of Warsaw’s Jews against the Nazis. Worse yet, Trump went to a different monument hailing Polish heroism in World War II where…
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