Edward Serotta

Edward Serotta is a journalist, photographer and filmmaker specializing in Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe. He is the head of the Vienna-based institute Centropa.

In Drohobych
On the trail of Bruno Schulz in wartime Ukraine
byEdward Serotta
Paying Tribute to Paul Celan in Chernivtsi
Our correspondent concludes a literary journey through wartime Ukraine
byEdward Serotta
The Last Chronicler of a Lost World
Searching for Joseph Roth in wartime Ukraine
byEdward Serotta
The Jewish Tolstoy of Berdychiv
The third stop of my literary tour of Eastern Europe brings me to the home of Vasily Grossman, the great bard of WWII.
byEdward Serotta
Jewish Writing During Wartime
A continuing journey through Ukraine takes us to the literary capital of the bloodlands
byEdward Serotta
Reading Babel in Odessa During Wartime
Part one of a series on Ukrainian Jewish writers
byEdward Serotta
Escape From Mariupol
A Holocaust survivor and her family in hiding and on the run
byEdward Serotta
The Photograph That Will Stop the War in Ukraine
Remembering Maks Levin, the photographer who was murdered by Russian soldiers after weeks capturing the front lines
byEdward Serotta
Reclaiming Jewish Life After the Nightmare of Communism
How Jews in Prague and Sofia overthrew their troubled communal leadership with the crumbling of the Soviet bloc
byEdward Serotta
My Hanukkah in Hell
Looking for latkes during the Romanian revolution
byEdward Serotta
Metamorphosis in Prague
On the 30-year anniversary of the Velvet Revolution ending Communism in Czechoslovakia, notes on how to transform a one-party state into a democracy in a matter of weeks
byEdward Serotta
On the Anniversary of Kristallnacht and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Remembering East Germany’s Jews
‘We really were naive, I suppose. More than I like to admit.’
byEdward Serotta
Banquo’s Ghost and the Fall of Hungarian Communism
The 30th anniversary of the nation’s liberation is troubled not only by its past but also by its present
byEdward Serotta
The Proust of Disillusion
Remembering the Hungarian writer and dissident György Konrád, who died last month at age 86
byEdward Serotta
Who Won the Cold War?
How change swept across central Europe 30 years ago this fall
byEdward Serotta