Dispatches on synagogues, communities, cemeteries, people, and the landscapes that shaped Jewish Central and Eastern Europe.
For centuries, Jewish merchants were the backbone of one of Europe's most celebrated wine regions. Their story is inseparable from the golden liquid that made Tokaj famous — and almost entirely forgotten.
Read ArticleIn a small town on the Romanian-Ukrainian border, a cemetery holds the remains of one of the oldest continuous Jewish communities in the region — and the graves of rabbis who shaped Hasidic thought across a continent.
Read ArticleNo architect designed more synagogues in Central Europe than Lipót Baumhorn. His buildings stand as monuments to a Jewish bourgeoisie that believed, for a few extraordinary decades, that it had found a permanent home.
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