Freed from the dreary, nauseating oppression of Ceausescu’s communist surveillance state, the great Romanian author is thrown back on himself, books, and the Jews
A pioneering Romanian Jewish lexicographer finds out that his mastery of language isn’t enough to make him a citizen
The little-known Romanian writer Abraham Zissu espoused a conception of Judaism rooted in a deep love for one’s community, and a simultaneous willingness to challenge its fundamentals
Its birth owes everything to an unlikely hero, Avrom Goldfaden, and a well-timed war with the Turks
The terrible cost of Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum’s life and actions during the Holocaust, and his later extremism
After an amazing feat of genealogy, a Holocaust survivor tells Yad Vashem he’s alive after all
Looking for latkes during the Romanian revolution
Thirty years after the uprising that toppled Ceauşescu, a memoir of the Jewish Romania that preceded the dictatorship
Romanian writer Mihail Sebastian’s 1934 autobiographical novel ‘For Two Thousand Years’ remains a classic document of 20th-century Jewish history
The late Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum and his disciples’ interpretation of his decisions and actions during the Holocaust
New ‘Holocaust Cellar’ is the first public learning center of its kind in Romania
A new Romanian film starring Vera Farmiga recreates a notorious incident with echoes in today’s European anti-Semitism
There’s a headline we weren’t quite ready for
We’re pretty sure Jews didn’t write this one
A new book by Lt. Gen. Ion Pacepa describes a Cold War effort to promote the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ in the Arab world
Representations of women in Romania’s Jewish cemeteries
