Dnieper Shlepper

Due to popular demand (well, popular in my view) I present the latest member of the growing Cohen Dynasty of Blogs: Dnieper Shlepper . I ha...

Heading home from Odessa, we stayed a few days to enjoy Kiev. Kiev has a chain of self-service resturants that became my lifeline to lunch -...

Just next to the Odessa Train station there is a huge, sprawling marketplace offering fresh produce, plastic shoes, Uzbek dried apricots, pi...

Odessa. Few cities carry as much oral history to Jewish families as this beautiful Black Sea port. Russia formally gained possession of the ...

Christian Dawid is not exactly the kind of name one would associate with one of the world’s best klezmer musicians. Few Klezmer guys are nam...

While in the Ukraine I found a replacement for White Castle Hamburgers: Uzbek food . Big, smelly Central Asian Turkic nomads who have a stra...

In Yevaptoria we visited the Tatar Mosque. The Crimean Tatars are a turkic people descended from the Turkic speaking muslim Tatar groups th...