eastern europe

Yugoslavian writer Slavenka Drakulic writes of everyday life in communist Eastern Europe before the Iron Curtain fell.

Introductory look at soccer teams and their fans in countries in eastern Europe including Czech Republic, Poland, and Russia.

A history, using numerous secondary sources, of the Jews in eastern Europe, especially during the nineteenth century.

Describes the historical and contemporary lives of eastern European women, their religious, family, and public lives, and issues and controversies they face, and discusses the work of individual eastern European women who have made a difference in their societies or the world.

Unable to stand his overcrowded and noisy home any longer, a man goes to the wise old woman who lives nearby for advice.

Explores the events that led up to the destruction of communisim in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Evangeline Harker, a reporter with the popular television news magazine "The Hour" undergoes a dark transformation after an assignment that took her to Transylvania to interview reputed crime boss Ion Torgu, and it is not long before the entire New York staff is infected with a strange malaise.

Presents more than four hundred personal photos that were confiscated upon deportees' arrival at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1943 and survived while all others were destroyed, and provides identification and biographical information on several of the families and individuals depicted.

After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.