At Berlin’s Rykestrasse Synagogue, Fredi chanted Moses’ song of darkness and redemption
Yitzhak Rabin’s First Peace Negotiation (and Necktie)
The twentysomething officer had never been abroad nor worn a suit
The Kaiser’s Favorite “Carmen”? A Jewish Star from Budapest
After years in the Berlin Royal Opera, an aging Teréz Rothauser was sent to Theresienstadt
“It Could Never Happen Here”: Before the Bolsheviks Came
Most in Nikolaevsk-on-Amur had felt safe in one of Russia’s most isolated corners
Sukkot During World War I: Open Roofs and ‘Mysterious’ Ditches
Photo taken by an Austrian soldier provides a rare glimpse
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When cholera ran rampant, saving lives superseded all else
The Ramban’s Prayer Unearthed and in English for the First Time
“Guide me in your truth and fulfill me from its delights”
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
