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Early Reflections on Poland
by David I’m writing from Cracow, Poland, after having spent three days in the nation’s capitol, Warsaw. I’m here with my father, on a roots tour, not unlike Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is...
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Warsaw: A Tale of Two Uprisings
by David Warsaw Uprising Museum I went to the Warsaw Uprising Museum a few days ago. In August of 1944, thousands of Poles in Warsaw rose up against their Nazi occupiers. They lasted almost two months,...
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A Different Cracow
by David Cracow I remembered. My memories of Warsaw from 12 years ago were much dimmer, but Cracow stood out in my mind. I remembered the old synagogues, the oldest built into the ground so as to avoid...
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Lviv and Lwow
by David Lviv Opera House Today was a day of contrasts in a city with many names. Today, it is Lviv, a Ukrainian city. Before World War II, it was Lwow, a Polish city. Before WWI, though still Polish,...
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Budaniv and Budzanow: The Weinfelds Come Home
by David The Weinfeld House in Budzanow My dad and I came home yesterday. Not to Montreal, but to Budaniv, Ukraine, formerly Budzanow, Poland, where my grandfather, Arnold Weinfeld, was born and...
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Vilnius and Vilna: City of Ghosts
by David At the beginning of this trip, what seems like eons ago, my father and I attended a conference in Warsaw on transnationalism. At one of the lunches, we sat with Scotsman, a professor at a...
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Museums of Vilnius
by David Castle in Vilnius In exploring Vilnius yesterday, the whole “city of ghosts” thing seemed to ring true. We walked along the beautiful streets, but the people seemed detached from the beauty...
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Nazism and Fascism were Ideologies of the Right
by David Adolf Hitler: Not a Socialist Three days ago it was Yom HaShoah, the Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s a solemn occasion, one that should not be politicized. On this next day, however,...
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Birthright Versus Yiddishkeit?
by David Me and my dad at the desecrated Jewish cemetery in Budaniv, formerly Budzanow, where his father (my grandfather) grew up There’s a new player in the Jewish continuity game, with a new plan for...
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On Anne Frank and Justin Bieber
by David Though teen pop sensation Justin Bieber is a fellow Canadian, I’m not usually in the business of defending him. I do not have “Bieber fever.” I can’t say I know any of his work, except for...
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