
At the Border of Memory and Truth
Maybe Esther: A Family Story
by Katja Petrowskaja, translated from the German by Shelley Frisch
November 8, 2018 issue
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Marci Shore is Associate Professor of History at Yale. Her most recent book is The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. (November 2018)
At the Border of Memory and Truth
Maybe Esther: A Family Story
by Katja Petrowskaja, translated from the German by Shelley Frisch
November 8, 2018 issue
Rescuing the Yiddish Ukraine
The shtetl Jews whose native tongue was Yiddish ought to have been “lost,” “vanished,” or “erased” decades ago. They and their ghosts have, for three generations now, been figures of literature.
In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine
by Jeffrey Veidlinger
June 5, 2014 issue
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