At Berlin’s Rykestrasse Synagogue, Fredi chanted Moses’ song of darkness and redemption
The twentysomething officer had never been abroad nor worn a suit
After years in the Berlin Royal Opera, an aging Teréz Rothauser was sent to Theresienstadt
Most in Nikolaevsk-on-Amur had felt safe in one of Russia’s most isolated corners
They were murdered days after Yom Kippur, yet my father survived
After he freed the serfs, Alexander II was virtually deified by one leading Jewish newspaper
Besides poverty and pogroms, forced conscription weighed heavily on European Jews
