The first words of the inhabitats of Partgrad were offensive words.

When Andropov became First Secretary of Central Committee of CPSU, he ordered the town renamed Partgrad. It's hard to guess, how long will that name endure.

On the palace of the Prince, there was a slogan: 'Long live feudalism - the bright future of the whole humanity!' The slogan on the first sanctuary read: 'Forw…

After the death of Stalin the town was renamed Grazhdansk. But this name didn't hold out more than a couple of years: then was the town given the name of Khrus…

'As I was a boy growing up, blacks themselves referred to their children as pickaninnies'

There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost …

Yiddish has not yet said its last word. It contains treasures that have not been revealed to the eyes of the world. It was the tongue of martyrs and saints, of…