Recent events in Ukraine and Russia have put back in the headlines some terms with ugly resonances for Jews, but their contemporary meanings are often more complex than we realize. For many Ashkenazi ...
A delegation of fourteen Don Cossacks — formerly the spearhead of Czarist anti-Semitism — recently visited New Zlatapol, center of the Jewish national region of that name, and received an enthusiastic ...
Masked Cossacks confronted the visitors who tried to commemorate Stalin’s victims in Sandarmokh, August 5, 2024. In the northwestern Russian republic of Karelia, an annual commemoration for victims of ...
While journalist Anton La Guardia’s flawed thesis is that the State of Israel is a modern version of ancient Sparta – totally dominated by the military – we need to ask about Amos Oz’s observation.
It was a Jewish nightmare of horrific proportions. In the middle of the 17th century, the uprising of the Ukrainian Cossacks, led by Bogdan Khmelnytsky, and the Swedish and Russian invasions of the ...
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