Jews in Mexico who secretly kept their faith were tortured and tried. Their tormentors saved their poems…
Elie Wiesel’s Haunting, Mysterious and Brilliant Master
“Mr. Shushani” reportedly knew the entire Hebrew Bible, Talmud and countless other texts by heart. His Nobel-laureate student never knew his real name.
The Star Austrian Poet’s Tragic and Forgotten Jewish “Muse”
Only at the gates of Auschwitz did ‘vivacious brunette’ Hedwig Bernhard let go of the gift she received from Rainer Maria Rilke…
Remembering Babi Yar When Others Didn’t
For two decades, one of the worst massacres of the Holocaust was all but forgotten
Did a Woman Really Read from the Torah in the 15th century?
Leifheit bat Asher owned a copy of the oldest printed Jewish prayer book. Was she also called to the Torah?
Who ‘Fixed’ the Jewish Calendar?
A glimpse at the Jewish year across time and space
Gershom Scholem’s Mishna Comes Home
About a year after the renowned scholar’s Talmud set finally found its way home, his Mishna has too…
Resurrecting One of the World’s Oldest Jewish Communities
After decades in ruins, Nikos Stavroulakis set out to revitalize Jewish life on the Greek island of Crete
This Hebrew School Teacher Was the First World Weightlifting Champ
Strongman, educator, culture critic, civil society leader, journalist, publisher and historian. Edward Lawrence Levy was all of these and more.
What Did ‘America’s Freud’ Think About Hitler?
Freud himself refrained from publicly psychoanalyzing the despot. Dr. W. Beran Wolfe didn’t…
