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December 30, 2019

Hoping for Latkes, an Amateur Photojournalist Found Himself in the Maelstrom of Romania’s Revolution

Hanukkah during the downfall of Ceausescu.

Shortly after hearing in December 1989 that the notorious Romanian Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was on the run from enraged demonstrators, Edward Serotta—who was working as a photojournalist in the Eastern bloc at the time—realized that Hanukkah would begin that evening. And then he got an idea:

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