1871 article: “Hardly anybody knows that war affects the weather strongly and causes heavy rain falls, strong winds, thunder and lightning.”
The Ghost Shtetl of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Youth
30 years after his death, the Nobel laureate’s village is being rebuilt, including a massive replica of a synagogue that was never there
Two-Gun Cohen: Artful Dodger Turned Chinese Legend and Hero of Israel
“He was like a character out of a book. He was like something somebody wrote.”
Putting the J in Majorca
After hundreds of years underground, Jewish life on the Spanish island is reawakening
Annual Docu.Text Documentary Film Festival Going Online
The sixth annual Docu.Text Documentary Film Festival will take place online from the 15th to the 25th of November, 2020
180 Years of Australian Jewish Newspaper History Going Online
Some 200,000 pages of historic press will be fully searchable as part of new global initiative
A Belated Kaddish for the Unnamed Victims of the Annaberg Transport
They were murdered days after Yom Kippur, yet my father survived
Eating by Example on Yom Kippur, an Epidemic Story
When cholera ran rampant, saving lives superseded all else
A ‘High Holiday Prayer’ to the Czar
After he freed the serfs, Alexander II was virtually deified by one leading Jewish newspaper
Dodging the Draft in the Old Country
Besides poverty and pogroms, forced conscription weighed heavily on European Jews
