Category: History

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera
By Categories: Arts, History, Literature

Click Here to Read: At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera. To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews By Andrew Silow-Carroll on the Jewish Telegraph website on September 17, 2025.

A brief history of Babi Yar, where Nazis massacred Jews, Soviets kept silence and now Ukraine says Russia fired a missile
By Categories: History, Politics

Click Here to Read: A brief history of Babi Yar, where Nazis massacred Jews, Soviets kept silence and now Ukraine says Russia fired a missile by Jeffrey Veidlinger on the Conversation website on March 7, 2022.

Babi Yar Holocaust memoria Image:Віктор Полянко  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Transnistria’s Jews find themselves caught in a Soviet time warp as Ukraine war rages next door
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Click Here to Read:  Transnistria’s Jews find themselves caught in a Soviet time warp as Ukraine war rages next door: The breakaway republic within Moldova is incredibly impoverished By Larry Luxner  on the JTA website on August 26, 2025.

Transnistria-map Image: Bogdangiusca at English Wikipedia.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A century ago, there was a race to make the first color photos. Now there’s a race to save them.
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Click Here to Read: A century ago, there was a race to make the first color photos. Now there’s a race to save them. The revolutionary invention of autochromes changed photography. As those pictures decay, they’re revealing a new kind of beauty By Katy Kelleher in the National Geographic on July 21, 2025.

Early color photo of Agen, France, by Louis Ducos du Hauron, 1877. The cathedral in the scene is the Cathédrale Saint-Caprais d’Agen. Image: Louis Ducos du Hauron (1837 – 1920).  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.