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Until finding his grandmother Maroussia Zorokovich’s diaries, Daniel Edelstyn didn’t know much about his family history. But as soon as he delved into the handwritten pages, he grew intrigued by Maroussia’s descriptions of the family’s sugar factory and set out on a journey to the remote Ukrainian village of her birth. What he finds is a shuttered […]

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Is there such thing as a Jewish science? Philipp Lenard, one of Hitler’s most esteemed scientists, thought so. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist called German scientists disciplined and “truth-seeking,” whereas Jewish and other “mixed-race” scientists were prone to wild theorizing. Those scientists included Albert Einstein, whose special theory of relativity Lenard dismissed as “Jewish science.” Though this […]

Polish Bar, a recent movie starring Judd Hirsch, Meat Loaf, and Richard Belzer (the Law and Order guy) is packed with the drama of what the filmmakers call Chicago’s “ludicrous underbelly”: money, drugs, sex, religion, bar fights, thievery, family schisms. It’s emotionally disturbing—and hard to look away. Reuben, played by Vincent Piazza, is a troubled yet well-intentioned guy who works in […]

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