On the anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, how one of the era’s most famous Jewish songs was written by an 11-year-old boy
Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day: A state-sponsored institution in Vilnius rewrites history to the delight of Europe’s new ultranationalists
The answer defines moral views of resistance and martyrdom, and says more about the version of history being told than it does about Wittenberg himself
The reVILNA digital mapping project seeks to restore the lives that were lived before they became anonymous victims
The literary journal Di Goldene Keyt nurtured Yiddish writers in Israel and the Diaspora—and made an author in Baltimore dream
Three remarkably realist Marc Chagall paintings of synagogues, to be sold at Sotheby’s tomorrow, tell the story of the artist’s Zionism
The epic life of Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, who died last week at 96
‘How,’ ‘The Lead Plates at the Rom Press,’ and ‘1981’
