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An art restorer has spent a decade compiling one of the most complex and definitive Yiddish dictionaries ever – in Belarusian. MINSK, Belarus (JTA) – Alexander Ostroukh can thank Leonid Brezhnev for ...

Grigory Reles has a lot to cry about. Belarus’ greatest living Yiddish writer and last literary link to shtetl life here breaks into tears twice during a recent two-hour conversation. The first comes ...

In discussions of economics, tourism, industry, politics and even contemporary Jewish culture, the Baltic lands and recent changes in the Balkans are mentioned often, as is the profound influence of ...

This is the sixth in a series about train and bicycle rides from Switzerland to Belarus, in those carefree days before pandemic lockdowns. From the Katyn Museum I biked to a Warsaw Ghetto memorial and ...

Despite the brutal suppression of their nascent pro-democracy movement, protesters continue to fill the streets of Minsk and other Belarusian cities, calling for an end to Alexander Lukashenko’s ...