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A family in the Seduva shtetl, captured before the world they knew disappeared. The Lost Shtetl Museum offers an intimate look at religious, civic and cultural life in communities like these. (The Lost Shtetl Museum/collection of Anat Rosen)
Posted inCulture

Echoes of a lost shtetl: How sound is recreating a vanished Jewish world

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz January 26, 2026January 26, 2026

In the countryside of a quiet Lithuanian town, sounds of a vanished shtetl have returned to life. Voices chattering in Yiddish mingle with clucking chickens, crowing roosters and accordion music […]

At Pinkas Synagogue in the Czech Republic, the Jews are gone, but their names remain: The walls are lined with names of Holocaust victims. (Photo/Karen Galatz)
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

My whirlwind European tour: tulips, inner turmoil and missing Jews

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz May 28, 2024May 28, 2024
A Hanukkah celebration at the Eiffel Tower in 2016. (Photo/Flickr-Chabad.org CC BY 2.0)
Posted inAnalysis

How a Hanukkah faux-pas ignited a political firestorm in France

by Robert Zaretsky December 11, 2023
A man walks along a building whose facade is covered with Stars of David in the Alesia district of Paris, Oct. 31, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Geoffroy van der Hasselt-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

As antisemitism spikes across Europe, more fingers are pointing at Russia

by David I. Klein November 28, 2023
Israeli flags wave at a solidarity rally for Israel in Cologne, Germany, Nov. 5, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Christoph Reichwein-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

As Europe’s Jews see a new era of antisemitism, governments struggle over how to respond

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov November 14, 2023
Giorgia Meloni is seen holding a placard that says, in Italian, "Thanks Italy," Sept. 26, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Valeria Ferraro-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

Italian Jews worry and wait as Giorgia Meloni, far-right leader, prepares to take power

Simone Somekh by Simone Somekh and JTA September 30, 2022September 30, 2022
Members of the Jewish community of Prague, the Czech Republic, attend the unveiling of a monument made of Jewish headstones at a local Jewish cemetery, Sept. 7, 2022. (Photo/Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Prague)
Posted inWorld

Prague’s Jews build monument out of headstones plundered under communism

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 13, 2022
Hungarian Jews celebrate the opening of a new synagogue in Budapest on Aug. 27, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inWorld

Which European countries are best for Jews? A new study offers unexpected answers.

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA June 21, 2022June 21, 2022
Monika Salzer speaks at a rally with fellow members of the Omas Gegen Rechts group, or Grandmas Against the Right, which she co-founded in 2017. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Omas Gegen Rechts)
Posted inWorld

In Germany and Austria, a movement of grandmothers is taking on the far right

headshot of Joe Baur by Joe Baur and JTA January 5, 2022
A scene from the Yiddish version of "Waiting for Godot" staged at Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm, Nov. 13, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Magnus Swärd-Judisk kultur i Sverige)
Posted inCulture

Sweden’s national theater stages its first ever Yiddish production

by Katarzyna Andersz and JTA November 22, 2021November 22, 2021

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