![]() ![]() The elderly woman had expressed - confessed, perhaps - the enormous void left by the deportation and annihilation of Motal’s Jewish population. He replied: “She said that ever since the Jews left this place, the place is dead.” “What did she say?” I asked Andrei, the translator who accompanied me. Just before we parted, the oldest in the group, a 93-year-old woman, approached me and, in a trembling voice, fighting back tears, said something softly in Belarusian. In the town of Motal, I spoke with a small group of locals, who recalled the Jewish neighbor who’d been a good friend of their parents, or that great klezmer band that had played at their uncle’s wedding, or the amazing raspberry torte cake you could buy at the Jewish bakery. ![]() In 2014, I traveled to Belarus to learn more about pre-World War II Jewish culture around Minsk. PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS Reports From a Haunted Present By Dara Horn ![]()
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