Books & the Arts / In The Empusium, the Polish novelist’s first novel since her Nobel, she pays homage to Thomas Mann in ...

Andrew “Andy” Jampoler was born Andrzej Jampoler on January 15, 1942 in Lwów, German-occupied Poland (present day: Lviv, Ukraine) to Karol and Hanka (Awin) Jampoler. Andy’s father Karol attended the ...

Eight years before, the limited premier edition of The Szyk Haggadah I created (2006-08) had been donated to the Vatican ...

Other than amateur skiing, skiing also went professional as a sporting discipline. In 1919, the Polish Ski Union was formed. At the outset, the Lwów [now Lviv] club was paramount above all others. The ...

In the early 1940s, authorities had consigned her parents to a Jewish ghetto in their hometown, now known as Lviv, but Diskin escaped their fate when she was left in the care of others.

There is an air of defeatism in progressive circles today, the day Donald Trump will be sworn in for a second term as President of the United States of America. Some of the reasons behind this sense ...

The Russian Defense Ministry announced early Thursday, Jan. 16, that its forces targeted energy and gas infrastructure in Ukraine during a missile attack on Wednesday, including a gas storage facility ...

During the morning Russian attack, two critical infrastructure facilities were struck in Drohobych and Stryi districts of Lviv region. Fortunately, there were no casualties, and electricity outages ...

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