The regional historian Lyubov Khomyn talks about Belz Hasidism, the central square, and the town’s Jewish history. Andriy Kobalia:  This city is located three kilometers from the Polish border. In his research the historian Janusz…

The historian Vladyslav Hrynevych spoke on the topic of Jews serving in the armies of the Romanovs, Habsburgs, and Bolsheviks. Historians often call the First World War the “Great War,” as it was the first…

The historian Shaul Stampfer discusses the religion of Khazaria The Khazar Khanate existed from the seventh to the tenth century. At the peak of its prosperity this nomadic Turkic state controlled the Northern Caucasus, the…

How Jews began leaving their ghettoes for the spacious streets of large European cities. The Age of Enlightenment began in Europe in the eighteenth century. In this new system of ethics, the supreme value was…