Wimpels have been used as ritual objects by German-speaking Jews for centuries, but these days in the U.S., the Torah binders have become part of new traditions in a wide variety of Jewish communities
Medieval stones offer a glimpse into the lives of 12th- to 13th-century Würzburg Jews, such as one who ‘served the Lord with his sweet voice,’ ‘Asher known as Bonfil,’ and ‘lady Rosa,’ who was ‘like a rose between thorns’
How a wealthy German Jewish family went from the society pages to front-page news after a 1943 murder and the subsequent sensational trial
A traditional German dessert, this apricot kuchen has been a favorite in my own family for generations
Can Jews really reclaim dirndls and lederhosen, once closely associated with Nazis?
The origins of a writer’s craft, from an academic-island childhood to the self-control gleaned from a Holocaust-surviving grandparent, by the author of the new novel ‘A Weekend in New York’
When Germany’s most famous Jewish journalist chose to address a party tied to his country’s far right, it wasn’t the groveling performance some have claimed but a brave challenge
The 1978 assassination of Harvey Milk is often remembered in the context of the LGBT civil rights struggle. But it was also part of the story of the shifting power structures in the city’s Jewish community.
Seventy-nine years after Kristallnacht, ‘A Deadly Legacy,’ a new history of German Jewish soldiers during World War I, traces the origins of the European scapegoating that would engulf the continent some years later
Private letters to foreign relatives paint a harrowing picture of warnings largely unheeded
German beer culture’s surprising origins
A mother and daughter bring old recipes back to life in ‘The German-Jewish Cookbook’
The ship’s refugees seeking safe haven from the Nazis were victims of a global system that included America
Details of a troubling report about anti-Semitism in Germany
Israeli-born doctor Josef Schuster to helm country’s Central Council of Jews
Faced with specific pressures in Europe, a writer asks, ‘Would I think and write in a different way if there were no Israel?’
German city of Cottbus gets first synagogue since 1938, in a former church
In 1936, Nazis celebrated Easter with Judenrein eggs—but a new book of family letters shows the crisis didn’t translate
