Anna Smolsky, at The Blogs

May 6, 2024, 4:20 PM

What do we know about holocaust, especially gen z when every year there are less and less survivors alive among us? And how do we get our knowledge about the most horrific genocide of jews? Films by Steven Spielberg,...

May 25, 2023, 3:17 PM

Tragic Iraqi Shavuot of 1941

At the beginning of the Jewish holiday Shavuot, 82 years ago, the Jewish community of Iraq faced a terrible and devastating act of antisemitism: the Farhud pogrom. The event was influenced by Nazi propaganda and took place in the...

Apr 25, 2023, 9:14 PM

Unknown history of Kiryat Bialystok

The modern Israeli society mainly consists of jewish immigrants, who brought with them the diverse cultural heritage along with their zionism values. Their backgrounds were stemming points for the development of the modern culture and traits of the State...

About Me

Anna Smolsky is first year student at Bar Ilan University, currently studying Communications and Political Science. She made aliyah to Israel in the beginning of 2022 and all her life lived in Ukraine near Poland. Anna is keen on the topics of Zionism, Israel's population and society. In her free from the university time she works as a teacher assistant in the field of special education.She also likes reading mysteries, historic and modern fiction books.