Explores the history, politics, economics, technological and artistic developments, and quality of life of five Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
Recounts how Eastern European refugees and displaced persons--many of them Jews--arrived in America after World War II to begin new lives and contribute their skills and learning to their new homeland.
Examines the changing face of Eastern Europe, where the Communist governments of East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland are buckling as the people find the courage to challenge forty years of one-party rule.
Presents a collection of essays and speeches by prominent figures such as Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and others that chronicle the events and issues connected to the Cold War.
Contains seventy black-and-white photographs--taken with a hidden camera--of children in the Jewish communities of Poland, Romania, Russia, and Hungary in the years between 1935 and 1938; and includes a selection of nursery rhymes, songs, poems, and chants, presented in Yiddish and English.
Two cousins, irreversibly changed by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, where the men re-enact the single event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results.
Examines the costumes of Eastern Europe at different eras throughout history, looking at what clothing and body adornment reveals about the culture and society of the region, and includes color illustrations, a glossary, a time line, and resource lists.
