Mikhail Krutikov is the Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan and a regular contributor to the Forward. You can reach him at [email protected].
Mikhail Krutikov
By Mikhail Krutikov
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Yiddish World Rise in anti-Zionism forces journalist to rethink his leftist Jewish identity
Michael Gawenda’s autobiography is a useful guide on how to navigate difficult conversations about Israel and Zionism
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Yiddish World I.B. Singer’s many newspaper articles are now available in English
In his nonfiction work, Singer often portrayed himself as the sole guardian of the annihilated world of Polish Jewry
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Yiddish World The blossoming and annihilation of the Jews in Tarnow
Before the Holocaust, Jews and Poles were on good terms, but under German occupation, many Poles aided the Nazis.
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Yiddish World The spa resort where European rebbes spent their summer vacations
Before World War I, the Marienbad resort had hotels for the rebbes, replete with glatt kosher restaurants and ritual baths
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Yiddish World How the Soviet Jew was made
In his novel, "Judgment," Dovid Bergelson describes how the pogroms convinced Jews to support the Soviet authorities.
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Joshua Cohen's 2021 novel won the 2022 Pulitzer for Fiction.
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Yiddish World Old Letters Revealed Her Parents’ Holocaust Experiences
Eleanor Reissa The Letters Project: A Daughter’s Journey Post Hill Press, 289 pp. –––––––––––––––––––––––– The Holocaust left considerable traces – some obvious, some hidden – on the Jewish collective soul, and although it took place far from America’s shores, it’s become an integral part of American history. Tens of thousands of survivors immigrated here, most…
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Yiddish World A writer seeks clues of his great-grandmother’s murder in 1913
Wayne Hoffman The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder Heliotrope Books, 2022 362 pp. The history of Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe often serves as a strong basis for creating American Jewish identity: Jews escaped persecution and pogroms in Russia and found a secure place of refuge in the “golden land.”…
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