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A Cossack pogrom — a century ago

Larry Domnitch -
One century ago this week, a catastrophe struck Jewry. On the Sabbath day, Feb. 15, 1919, horror came to the Jewish community of the Ukrainian town of Proskurov. The Proskurov pogrom would come to signify the tragedy that befell the...
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The Balfour Declaration: reflecting on a centenary

Larry Domnitch -
Amid the destruction of WWI, hope emerged upon the horizon for the beleaguered Jewish people — the Balfour Declaration. The war, which Germany officially joined on the same day as the ninth of Av, now offered a moment of respite...
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Russian Revolution and the Jews

Larry Domnitch -
It is the centennial of the Russian Revolution. The first stage, which lead to the Bolshevik Revolution later that year, started in  the capital city of St. Petersburg. Rioters and strikers refused to desist in their efforts to cause...

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I.J. Singer is part of Italy’s Yiddish moment

In 1932, Israel Joshua Singer boarded a ship bound for New York, where he had been invited to report on the US for Yiddish-speaking Jews like himself. “Americans are a difficult people to understand,” the famed novelist wrote in one of his first articles from the US. Nearly a century later, his first encounters with America have appeared together in Italian translation.