The Specter of a “New World Order” Created by Russia, China, and Iran
The Biden administration is ignoring a powerful, and growing, anti-American alliance.
February 3, 2022
YIVO’s New Digital Archive Helps Bring Prewar Vilna to Life
Archivists have restored and preserved an extraordinary trove of documents.
Seven years ago, the YIVO Institute launched the Edward Blank Vilna Online Collections project, an attempt to digitize an enormous number of photographs, pamphlets, poems, and other precious artifacts that were rescued from Lithuania following World War II. It is now complete and will soon be available online. Writing about her experiences working on the collection, Alyssa Quint notes that “radical access” to these artifacts stands to transform our understanding of “what East European Jewry was, and . . . our sense of the past.”
February 3, 2022
Putting Turkey’s Overtures to Israel in Context
Erdogan capitalizes on a crisis of his own making.
Debates over Ritual-Slaughter Bans Heat Up in the European Union
A top EU official criticizes laws prohibiting kosher slaughter of animals.
YIVO’s New Digital Archive Helps Bring Prewar Vilna to Life
Archivists have restored and preserved an extraordinary trove of documents.
The History, Enduring Appeal, and Lost Songs of “Fiddler on the Roof”
From a title inspired by a Chagall painting to 35 discarded songs, the classic musical has a rich and illuminating history.