A new book charts the rise and fall of a short-lived haven for working-class immigrants and their soon-to-be upwardly mobile ...
and made us hate the place,” the writer Vivian Gornick wrote in a 2001 New York Times essay about growing up in the West ...
People with disabilities and parents living with young children at a western suburbs housing block are calling on the state ...
That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public ...
The ghettos, where countless Jews were forcibly confined in the worst conditions, were often situated in the heart of urban areas ... co-naming of a street in New York City as Yad Vashem Way ...
The decay of inner Melbourne is starting to mirror the sad demise of US cities like New York and San Francisco ... to do something about the dangerous ghetto-like mess Chapel St has become.
The stories now live on through Pessin, who has shared her parents’ experiences in presentations to area schools and libraries ... Education Center in New York. With Monday marked as ...
What’s that word? It’s ghetto. Originally the word described the place where Jews were confined in 16th century Venice. In the 1960s and 1970s, the word was repurposed to describe ...
Joseph Alexander said he had a “very good life” with his family until Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939.  He was only 17 years old the first time he was in a concentration camp. Alexander ...
Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. San Francisco resident Luba Grungras is a Holocaust survivor who recently ...