“A Ukrainian Chapter”

Historian Michael Nutkiewicz discusses his uncle Eli Gumener’s 1921 Yiddish memoir, subtitled “Two Years in Podolia,” which depicts the fate of Jews caught in the post-revolution Russian Civil War, the challenges of providing aid to Jewish communities and life during devastating years of pogroms in Ukraine from 1918 to 1920. Presented by Jewish Community Library and New Lehrhaus. Online.