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Gertel’s Last Stand
After 90 years, a Lower East Side institution shuts its doors
Last Friday, Gertel’s Bakery—the most-loved of the Lower East Side’s three remaining kosher bakeries—permanently closed its doors, after 90 years in business. Joanna Smith Rakoff, the editor of Nextbook.org and a longtime consumer of Gertel’s prune danishes, talked to the shop’s final customers about rugelach, “water challah,” and the past and future of a neighborhood in flux.
Jewish Centurions vs. Rome
Street performers who pose for tourists by the Colosseum battle city authorities
When Berlin Meant Business
Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
In Praise of Dairy Restaurants
A visit to B&H Restaurant on Second Avenue brings back memories of milchig establishments of yore
Curse of the Survivor
Singer Vera Gran was haunted by allegations of Nazi collaboration. A new book asks if survival made her guilty.
