Diaspora

After he freed the serfs, Alexander II was virtually deified by one leading Jewish newspaper

Hagège estimated that some 150 Tunisian authors wrote in Judeo-Arabic. This article is in memory of 100 years of Judeo-Arabic literature.

Besides poverty and pogroms, forced conscription weighed heavily on European Jews

Dr. Rahel Hirsch broke with mainstream convention and paved the way for the women who followed after. This is the story of the doctor who insisted that women’s health was about more than female genitalia.

Born Moshe Dovid Osinsky, he was a giant of industry, welfare and charity knighted by the king

How the decades-long romance between the Maharal of Prague and his wife began

Now his daughter is searching for his Nazi-looted and lost artwork

This prayer book was published by Schocken in 1937, a year before Kristallnacht. Decades later, a reader at the National Library was surprised to find in it a clearly visible Nazi seal featuring a swastika…

Why my grandfather left Europe