Ulrich Schnaft was a former member of the SS, who posed as a Jew and joined the Israeli army after WWII
The Man Who Would Be King: Delusions of (Royal) Grandeur in Mandatory Palestine
Samuel Solnik, who claimed descent from King David, sought to convince the US and Britain to restore the ancient Kingdom of Israel and place his son on the throne
Meet the Jewish Circus Performer Who Could Bend Iron with His Bare Hands
Zishe Breitbart was known as the “Modern Day Samson” and performed all over the world until his untimely death.
How Bergen-Belsen Survivors Celebrated Independence
Take a rare look inside the newspapers published by the inhabitants of the concentration camp after liberation.
100 Years of Haaretz Newspaper to Go Online
The digitized issues will be accessible via the JPress – Historic Jewish Press website, an initiative of the National Library of Israel and Tel Aviv University
Love on the Wings of a Paper Airplane
A timeless love story cut short by the horrors of the Holocaust.
The Newspaper That Put the Jews of Egypt on the World Stage
The story of the newspaper that was not afraid to take on anyone: “Let us destroy to rebuild – we are all suffocating in the dark atmosphere of a community dominated by greedy money-grubbers.”
