Diaspora

“I’m still young, I want to live”; even in their darkest hour, the prisoners of the Nazi camps wrote songs of hope

When did the libel of Jews using Christian blood on Passover make its first appearance?

Lilli Henoch won championships and set new world records, but her accomplishments weren’t enough to save her from the bullets of the Nazi Einsatzgruppen soldiers

What if you found a vaccine for a deadly disease and no one believed you? What if your only option was to inject yourself with a weakened strain and hope for the best?

Documents discovered in the CAHJP archives reveal a surprising initiative undertaken by the Jews of Iran and the country’s government to mark 2,500 years since the Edict of Cyrus

A letter sent by the wives of Jewish men imprisoned during the Damascus Affair of 1840 gives voice to the suffering of these women, some of whom were beaten and even forced to provide sexual favors as a result of the blood libel

This is the little-known story of Mohandas Gandhi’s unusual relationship with the Yiddish language…

The letter with which Stefan Zweig took leave of the world is preserved today in the archives of the National Library of Israel

More than 80 years after Jewish sports associations were outlawed by the Nazis, hundreds of German athletes still proudly wear the Star of David on their jerseys