In the 1890s, two Jewish men from Moldavian towns roughly 230 kilometers apart left Romania…
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The Last Jews of Zakarpattia
To commemorate this weekend’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, János Chialá and Tali Mayer report from Zakarpattia in southwestern Ukraine, where…
Forced Out of its Original Location After 80 Years, An Istanbul Corset Shop Starts from Scratch
The controversial closure of a family-owned corset shop on Istanbul’s famous İstiklal Avenue marks the end…
On the Death of Zoran Mandlbaum, the Jewish Go-Between in Mostar
At 10:30 pm on Monday, 9 November 2015, a man from Mostar called Zoran Mandlbaum…
“The destiny of Bosnia will also be our destiny”: Jakob Finci on the Jewish Community of Bosnia
Jakob Finci reflects on the historic and contemporary position of the Jewish community in Bosnia…