Reviews
Review
Activism Despite Chaos: A review of Eli Gumener‘s A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir of Sorrow (Podolia, 1918–20)
Mar 08, 2026
Review
A Mosaic of Memory: Levi Shalit and the Twilight of Shavl Jewry (Review of So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania)
May 07, 2025
Review
Review of Once There Was Warsaw by Ber Kutsher, transl. Gerald Marcus
Kutsher’s memoir is not just a memoir of his life but a memoir of a city long gone. Written originally in Yiddish in 1955 after Kutsher survived the Holocaust and left Poland, it reads more like a yizkor book than a personal memoir.
Jan 13, 2025
Review
“The Worst Good Idea Ever”? The Birobidzhan Project and Soviet Jewish Culture
Masha Gessen’s new book explores the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan through the story of David Bergelson and Simon Dubnow, whose thought and writing influenced its development.
Jun 26, 2017