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Diaspora
“Mr. Shushani” reportedly knew the entire Hebrew Bible, Talmud and countless other texts by heart. His Nobel-laureate student never knew his real name.
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From medical school to the battlefield, he wound up in Siberia and China before America
In Genie Milgrom’s family, hidden Jewish identity was preserved for generations in the food they ate
Is there a connection between the pointed hat worn by mythical dwarfs and gnomes and the hats once worn by the Jews of Europe?
Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jewish community adopted a seemingly strange image from Medieval Christian art
At Berlin’s Rykestrasse Synagogue, Fredi chanted Moses’ song of darkness and redemption
After years in the Berlin Royal Opera, an aging Teréz Rothauser was sent to Theresienstadt
Most in Nikolaevsk-on-Amur had felt safe in one of Russia’s most isolated corners
Some 200,000 pages of historic press will be fully searchable as part of new global initiative
Photo taken by an Austrian soldier provides a rare glimpse
They were murdered days after Yom Kippur, yet my father survived
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