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Most sources, though, are on Grodno, forcing the author to reach for Minsk material to fill in the Soviet/Vitebsk story. Jeffrey Koerber's I Borderland Generation i is an insightful account of the generation of young Jews whose formative years fell in the 1920s and 1930s in two cities of the Polish-Soviet borderland: Polish Grodno and Soviet-Belorussian Vitebsk. The author contrasts educational systems, employment opportunities, and levels of antisemitic violence in Grodno and Vitebsk to show how these circumstances affected Jewish familial, communal, and religious lives, as well as identity formation. [Extracted from the article]

After the Second World War, the Czechoslovak state redrew the boundaries around its national/ethnic community, defining anew who belonged and who did not. This process primarily involved the redefinition of the criteria for citizenship. Jewish survivors were among those who negotiated for the recognition of their citizenship. Since the Czechoslovak government did not grant Jews legal status as a national minority, Jewish survivors could be freely classified as Slovaks, Czechs, Germans, or Magyars. The latter two translated into refusal of citizenship and expulsion. This article discusses how Magyar-speaking Jews in Slovakia struggled to secure Czechoslovak citizenship through dialogue and conflict between their representatives, local administrations, and the central government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]