Remembering Mrs. Els Salomon-Prins Bendheim
Jewish martyrology from medieval Germany
Who perpetrated the Lviv pogrom of July 1941?
The status of stories in Sefer Hasidim, one of the most reprinted Jewish books
Suspected of orchestrating the Lincoln assassination, the South’s most prominent Jew escaped to London to start a new life as a high-powered lawyer. The U.S. government secretly tried to bring him home to face justice.
Tracking the descendants of America’s early Sephardic elite, from WASP blue bloods to the great-great-grandchildren of slaves
Ruth Blau’s shocking, true-life journey from Catholicism to the top of the ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta—and from the French Resistance to facing off against the Mossad
The story of a former converso’s invention of the Lurianic ‘ilan’
A former student remembers the blazing intellect who revolutionized Haredi women’s education
On salamanders, wondrous creatures, and the early modern blending of the scientific and the magical
The brilliant Jewish Arabist Hedwig Klein helped the Germans compile the definitive modern Arabic dictionary before being murdered in the camps
A new book explores the role of non-Germans in implementing the ‘Final Solution’ in the East
An excerpt from the great Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever’s memoir of the Vilna Ghetto
The chief rabbi of Russia on rebuilding Jewish community life amid persecution and war
This Passover, we think of the Uyghurs, the Tibetans, and other captive peoples whose struggle for freedom and cultural survival parallels our own
Italian historian Carlo Vecce set out to debunk rumors of da Vinci’s foreign origins, but a newly discovered document changed his mind
With a new Cold War emerging, can Israel continue to sit on the fence?
Rescuing peasants under Nazi occupation from the condescension of history
