Why ‘Lucky Jew’ imagery is so popular in Poland
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ (JTA) — Visit a few main marketplaces or trinket shops in Warsaw or Krakow, and you’re almost ...
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The ‘Queen Social Bee of Knollwood’
Paula Rubin, who survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and was a successful businesswoman in St. Paul, died at 92 By ERIN ...
Exploring Polonia for a new generation
By ZACHARY KAGAN In January, Catholics across Europe take time to reflect on Christian-Jewish relations. The Italian Catholic church was ...
Only memories remain of Poland’s Jews
By CARLA WALDEMAR Poland was high on my bucket list. So it was time to check it out, thanks to ...
Those madcap Marx Brothers onstage
The Cocoanuts, the Marx Brothers’ first film, originated on the Broadway stage, and now returns to the Guthrie stage By ...
A young girl in the ghetto
Rywka’s Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto, edited by Anita Friedman, Harper, 240 pages, $35 ...
At Berlin's Maccabi Games, past is ever-present
Germans and visitors alike reflect on the past, but look towards the future with hope and vigor By HILLEL KUTLER ...
Sobibor discovery spurs calls to halt museum project
Yad Vashem has asked that plans to build on the site of the Polish death camp be reevaluated to ensure ...
Celebrating the strength of a family
Descendants of the five Mandelbaum siblings who survived the Holocaust in Poland gathered on Jan. 17 to celebrate their ‘total ...
Mina Freier knew importance of speaking out
The native of Lodz, Poland, died last October at the age of 91 By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News ...
