Split By a Border and Fading Fast: Estonia's Unique Seto People
For Estonia’s Setos, it wasn’t the Soviet Union’s Iron Curtain that split their community in two – but the border Estonia built to keep the Russians out.Continue Reading →
Living in a State of Non-History: Growing Up Lithuanian-American
For almost half a century, my grandfather stubbornly maintained the New York Consulate of prewar independent Lithuania in a cramped rent-controlled apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.Continue Reading →
Final Point of the Russian Empire: Liepāja's Half a Million Emigrants
In the eight years of emigration from Liepāja to New York, over 500,000 people used the Russian-American line to reach the ‘Big Apple’.Continue Reading →
Forty Tatars in the Lithuanian Countryside: One Village's 600 Years of Islamic History
The most remarkable thing about these long forgotten heroes of Lithuanian history is their identity.Continue Reading →
Bohemian Adventures in Tallinn's Fish House
The quiet former fishermen’s district of Kalamaja is today one of Tallinn’s last remaining areas with a hodgepodge of old wooden houses and old-fashioned industrial complexes.Continue Reading →