New Suit To Pressure Poles On Property
by Steve Lipman Staff Writer In a test case that will likely increase international pressure on Poland to return billions of dollars of property seized from Jews by the Nazis during World War II and...
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Steve Lipman Staff Writer The best advice I ever received about a forthcoming interview concerned a septuagenarian cardiologist in Warsaw. I was about to interview Dr. Marek Edelman, the...
View ArticlePreserving The Lodz Legacy
by Steve Lipman Staff Writer A few thousand high school and university students, joined by politicians, participated Tuesday in an annual International Day of Racism in Lodz, a large Polish city in...
View ArticleHelene Aylon - For Readers In California
Monday, December 8th, 2008 Here’s a tip for our readers in California: read more
View ArticleApril 11, 1944 and April 11, 2010
Sixty-five years after the Holocaust, and Yom Hashoah -- April 11 -- remains, appropriately, a day that the Jewish community can't figure out how to observe. And rightly so. Most holy days are actually...
View ArticleOur Town: YIVO’s Jewish Europe
Jonathan Mark Associate Editor New multimedia encyclopedia embraces a golden age.Emanuel Ringelblum knew Jewish Eastern Europe the way the Stage Manager in “Our Town” knew Grover’s Corners. The Tevye...
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