On Wednesday, November 9, the Institute welcomed Natalia Aleksiun, author of Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust, and Kenneth B. Moss, author of An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland for Part II of our Jews of Eastern Europe series.
Until the Second World War, Eastern Europe was home to the largest Jewish community in the world. This demographic concentration fostered the development of many important religious, cultural, literary, and political movements that continue to define Jewish life to this day. Focusing on recent scholarship that deals with Yiddish literature and Jewish life in interwar Yiddishland, this book series hopes to shed light on how the history of this important Jewish community a century ago has much to teach us today.