A glimpse into the legendary Russian author’s relationship with the People of the Book
Back in the USSR: Recollections of an American College Kid Turned Manuscript Smuggler
50 years later, illicit texts and dissidents remembered
Torah, Raki and Yogurt: Shavuot on the Aegean Sea
A nostalgic celebration with the Jews of Saloniki
The Epidemic That Brought Jews Back to Jerusalem
Fleeing a Galilean plague, a handful of the Vilna Gaon’s students rewrote the holy city’s history
When the ‘Jerusalem of Austria’ Burned to the Ground (on Lag B’Omer)
A look back at the disaster which befell the city of Brody in 1867, and how Europe’s Jews came together to help the victims
Why ‘Anti-Semitism’ Was Not in the Original Oxford English Dictionary
In a newly surfaced letter, the dictionary’s founding editor wrote that it was not thought likely to be more than a “passing nonce-word…”
A Digital Geniza: The National Library of Israel Is Collecting in the Age of COVID-19
The National Library of Israel is asking you to send us examples of digital ephemera which convey a sense of the times
Vanished Streets – Unseen Photographs of Lost Jewish London
Shloimy Alman’s collection of photographs of Jewish London from the 1970s survive as a unique record of a disappeared world.
The Nuremberg Laws: The Ban Against Jewish Blood
At an assembly of the Nazi Party in September 1935, the Reichstag passed laws that stripped German Jews of their citizenship
What Did Freud Really Think of Zionism?
Spoiler alert: The father of psychoanalysis was not the biggest fan of establishing a Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine.
