Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
Muslims’ reverence for the eccentric Sabbatei Sevi
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAFeb 22, 2018
ULCINJ, Montenegro — Throughout 1988, Jusuf Lika had debilitating migraines and sensory disruptions that doctors blamed on the chemicals in the darkroom where he had...
Albanian Muslims saved Jews
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 18, 2018
TIRANA, Albania — Most anywhere else in Nazi-occupied Europe, an encounter with police would have likely sealed the fate of Jewish refugees like Nissim and Sarah...
Jan Zwartendijk: Unsung Holocaust hero
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 11, 2018
YAOTSU, Japan — Like other journalists and researchers, I traveled all the way to this rural area to gain a better understanding of the actions of Chiune Sugihara, one...
From Polish gravestones to politics
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 11, 2018
MIEDZYRZEC PODLASKI, Poland — In a snowy woods near the border with Belarus, Jonny Daniels pulls muddy fishing waders over the pants of his tailored business suit and...
Kosher butchers in Europe face closure
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 30, 2017
PARIS — When Jerry Levy’s family opened one of the first gourmet kosher meat shops in France, they had some of the country’s best-laid business plans. Hailing from...
Austria’s complicated treatment of the Holocaust
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 23, 2017
VIENNA — When it comes to the Holocaust, Austria has made a lot of progress assuming responsibility. In recent years, Austrian officials have consistently acknowledged...
How extremist is Poland?
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 16, 2017
WARSAW — The sight of far-right activists waving racist banners and shouting anti-Semitic slogans during a nationalist march in the capital of Poland last weekend...
In 1917, Jews had two choices: exile or revolution
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 09, 2017
MOSCOW — Of all the many loaded issues tied to the bloody history of Jews in the former Soviet Union, none is as sensitive today in that part of the […]
Europe’s last dictatorship: Some Jews don’t mind
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 26, 2017
MINSK — At the age of 36, Yishai Malkin and his family are leading what millions of people in the former Soviet Union would consider a charmed life. A web designer,...
Filming the truth about post-Holocaust Hungary
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 26, 2017
BUDAPEST — The time is just after the defeat of Nazi Germany. Two Orthodox Jews disembark from a train at a rural station in Soviet-occupied Hungary and, after...